The volume integrates case studies from prominent political discourses, including those of George W. The book's theoretical and methodological grounding in metaphor allows for an alternative perspective on strategic communication but also a robust discussion of both persuasion and other kinds of related discursive processes at work in political communication, including narrative, identification, and ideology. This groundbreaking work adopts an alternative metaphor-based approach to challenge, unpack, and redefine our understanding of persuasion and strategic communication and the extents to which they shape political discourse. The resurrection of an enemy from the past forces the audience to deal with the uncertainties, inequalities, and the ideological drifts of an actual socio-political context “with no alternatives”. Lastly, we read these narrative devices as a possible form of repoliticisation of the collective imagination. Through the comeback of the Soviet Evil Empire on our screens, then, contemporary TV series seem to try and recall the underlying reasons for the contemporary neoliberal order. This paper discusses the success of the three series in the light of the socio-political debate on Cold War nostalgia. “Stranger Things” third season (Netflix 2019), the success of “Chernobyl” (HBO 2019), along with the cult status reached by “The Americans” (Fox 2013-2018), brought back to life the collective image of geopolitical struggles, the existence of an enemy, as well as the dialectics between opposed systems of thought. Recently, some TV series turned their nostalgic gaze to one of the least reassuring parts of the 80s: the Cold War between the USA and the USSR. The series creates the original it desires and then speaks back at it. Comrade Detective engages with nostalgia that leads to the creation of an object, a fantasy of adaptation, where the original is the translation. These past and present are joined, like superimposed photos, in the process of dubbing, that hides one voice - the minor Romanian one - while foregrounding the American narrative. This chapter argues that Comrade Detective offers for consumption an object of ironic nostalgia that is speaking both to the Cold War past, its propaganda mechanisms, and its veiling of historical truths, as well as to the present, and its more chaotic power and influence structure. This and other production choices, including using dubbing as translation, bring into discussion American nostalgia for the Cold War political status quo, in the context of current ideological uncertainty. In their introduction, the producers maintained that the series was produced in the 1980s Romania and they recovered, restored, dubbed, and released it for American and international audiences. In August 2017 Amazon released an original series entitled Comrade Detective.
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