ABSTRACT
The interconnection between the Cold War and cinema is a relatively new topic of research, even if it has been studied at least since Nora Sayre’s Films of the Cold War (1982). Walter J. Hixson’s Parting the Curtain (1997), engaging with the cultural dimension of the Cold War, certainly had a huge infl uence in this fi eld, famously stating that the Cold War’s outcome “could only be decided on cultural ground.” 1 That said, historiography in its current state still has many shortcomings, which leads us to start by stressing “the Five Commandments” which should be considered by any Cold War cinema historian.
