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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Glavni avtor: Sherman, Fraser A.
Korporativna značnica: ebrary, Inc
Format: Elektronski eKnjiga
Jezik:angleščina
Izdano: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2011.
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  • 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.