David Caute

Bio: David Caute is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Communism & Political theatre. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 17 publications receiving 779 citations.

The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War

Abstract: Introduction: The Culture War PART I: MARKING THE TERRITORY 1 Propaganda Wars and Cultural Treaties 2 The Gladiatorial Exhibition PART II: STAGE AND SCREEN WARS: RUSSIA AND AMERICA 3 Broadway Dead, Says Soviet Critic 4 The Russian Question - a Russian Play 5 Soviet Cinema under Stalin 6 Hollywood: The Red Menace 7 Witch Hunts: Losey, Kazan, Miller 8 Soviet Cinema: The New Wave PART III: STAGE AND SCREEN WARS: EUROPE 9 Germany Divided: Stage and Screen 10 Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble 11 Dirty Hands: The Political Theatre of Sartre and Camus 12 Squaring the Circle: Ionesco, Beckett, Havel and Stoppard 13 Andrzej Wajda: Ashes and Diamonds, Marble and Iron PART IV: MUSIC AND BALLET WARS 14 Classical Music Wars 15 Shostakovich's Testimony 16 All that Jazz: Iron Curtain Falls 17 The Ballet Dancer Defects PART V: ART WARS 18 Stalinist Art: The Tractor Driver's Supper 19 Passports for Paintings: Abstract Impressionism and the CIA 20 Picasso and Communist France 21 The Other Russia: Pictures by 'Jackasses' Conclusion Bibliography Notes and References

The Fellow-Travellers: Intellectual Friends of Communism

Abstract: This highly regarded book gives a lucid and balanced account of fellow travellers in Europe and America: those individuals who were not willing to become Communists but were attracted by the socialist systems of the Soviet Union, the Popular Democracies, and Communist China.

Discourse and manipulation

Abstract: ‘Manipulation’ is one of the crucial notions of Critical Discourse Analysis that require further theoretical analysis. This article offers a triangulated approach to manipulation as a form of social power abuse, cognitive mind control and discursive interaction. Socially, manipulation is defined as illegitimate domination confirming social inequality. Cognitively, manipulation as mind control involves the interference with processes of understanding, the formation of biased mental models and social representations such as knowledge and ideologies. Discursively, manipulation generally involves the usual forms and formats of ideological discourse, such as emphasizing Our good things, and emphasizing Their bad things. At all these levels of analysis it is shown how manipulation is different from legitimate mind control, such as in persuasion and providing information, for instance by stipulating that manipulation is in the best interest of the dominated group and against the best interests of dominated group...

Desegregation as a Cold War Imperative

Abstract: At the height of the McCarthy era, when Congressional committees were exposing "communist infiltration" in many areas of American life, the Supreme Court was upholding loyalty oath requirements, and the executive branch was ferreting out alleged communists in government, the U.S. Attorney General filed a pro-civil rights brief in what would become one of the most celebrated civil rights cases in American history: Brown v. Board of Education. Although seemingly at odds with the restrictive approach to individual rights in other contexts, the U.S. government's participation in the desegregation cases during the McCarthy era was no anomaly. Rather, by the early 1950s, American leaders had come to believe that civil rights reform was crucial to the more central U.S. mission of fighting world communism. Based in part on diplomatic research in State Department archives, this article demonstrates that Cold War motives influenced the U.S. government's involvement in Brown and other cases. Originally published in 1988 in the Stanford Law Review, this article was the first publication to use State Department records to examine the relationship between Cold War foreign relations and civil rights in the United States. Diplomatic records illustrate the growing concern among American diplomats and political leaders after World War II about the impact of race discrimination on the U.S. image around the world, and the global critique that the United States could not be an effective "leader of the free world" as long as the nation blatantly denied rights to its own peoples. This research confirmed the suspicions of Derrick Bell and others who argued before these records were opened that foreign affairs affected U.S. government civil rights policies, and it helped illuminate the world-wide impact of the civil rights movement. This research was expanded upon in Mary L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2000), and in books and articles by other scholars. The larger body of work on race and foreign relations is an important aspect of efforts by historians to "internationalize" the study of American history. Thanks to the Stanford Law Review, the article is now available on SSRN so that it will be easily accessible on-line.

The third persona: An ideological turn in rhetorical theory

Abstract: Wander finally answers his critics (who had various rejoinders to his “The Ideological Turn in Modern Criticism,” CSSJ, Spring 1983), with an extension of his original position, including development of the concept of “the third persona.”

Narrative and the Making of Us National Security

Abstract: Dominant narratives - from the Cold War consensus to the War on Terror - have often served as the foundation for debates over national security. Weaving current challenges, past failures and triumphs, and potential futures into a coherent tale, with well-defined characters and plot lines, these narratives impart meaning to global events, define the boundaries of legitimate politics, and thereby shape national security policy. However, we know little about why or how such narratives rise and fall. Drawing on insights from diverse fields, Narrative and the Making of US National Security offers novel arguments about where these dominant narratives come from, how they become dominant, and when they collapse. It evaluates these arguments carefully against evidence drawn from US debates over national security from the 1930s to the 2000s, and shows how these narrative dynamics have shaped the policies pursued by the United States.