Publication
Sep 2002
This paper discusses the "benevolent supremacy" approach that the US employed in the 1950s. According to the author, the approach dominated the country's foreign policy and shaped its self-representation of its growing international power. He examines biblical epic films as cultural productions of that time, and suggests that these films and US foreign policy toward Egypt in 1956 formed part of the emergent US power in the Middle East in the post-war period.
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Author | Melanie McAlister |
Series | MacMillan Center Middle East Studies |
Publisher | MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies |
Copyright | © MacMillan Center |