Western scholars have published some books and articles about the enemy
image (i.e. Russia) during the Cold War era. For instance, American scholars M.
Strada and H. Troper (Strada, and Troper, 1997) T. Shaw and D.J. Youngblood
(Shaw and Youngblood, 2010) analyzed a number of American and Soviet movies on the Cold War topic in their monographs and arrived at a valid conclusion that a
chameleon-like presentation of Russians in the Hollywood cinema had often changed its color – now red now pink-red, sometimes white or blue depending on the foreign policy changes (Strada, Troper, 1997, p. 200). But, firstly, these authors did not set before themselves the aim to give a comparative analysis of the Soviet and post Soviet Russian screen images, and, secondly, they analyzed exclusively American and Soviet media texts and did not study western films in general
