Screen enemies of the American way political paranoia about Nazis, Communists, saboteurs, terrorists and body snatching aliens in film and television /
"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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| Format: | Electrònic eBook |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Jefferson, N.C. :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
2011.
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| Accés en línia: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Taula de continguts:
- 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.