An edition of Screen enemies of the American way (2010)

Screen enemies of the American way

political paranoia about Nazis, Communists, saboteurs, terrorists and body snatching aliens in film and television

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An edition of Screen enemies of the American way (2010)

Screen enemies of the American way

political paranoia about Nazis, Communists, saboteurs, terrorists and body snatching aliens in film and television

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"American films, like America itself, have long been fascinated by the threat of outsiders posing as citizens to destroy the American way of life. This book tracks real-world fears appearing in the movies and shows how these issues, and others, played out on screen"--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher
McFarland
Language
English
Pages
234

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Jefferson, N.C

Table of Contents

German fifth columns: the Hun, the Third Reich and the rise of the Fourth Reich
The yellow peril and the fear of Japan
The red menace: Bolsheviks, commies and atheists in America
Red scare: Fifth column anticommunist films from 1949 to 1960
Communist fifth columnists after 1960
Muslim fifth columns in America
Invasion of the body snatchers
Brain eaters, human duplicators and other science fictional fifth columns
Invaders, X-files and dynamators: alien fifth columns on television
Sexual politics and the war between men and women
The master race
Satanic and supernatural infiltration in film and television
Miscellanea: corporate takeovers, secret societies and the JFK assassination
Appendix 1: film credits
Appendix 2: television series credits and synopses.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-214), index and filmography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/658
Library of Congress
PN1995.9.P6 S54 2011, PN1995.9.P6S54 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
vi, 234 p. :
Number of pages
234

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25030483M
ISBN 10
078644648X
ISBN 13
9780786446483
LCCN
2010048313
OCLC/WorldCat
635492270

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