Screen Enemies of the American Way

Political Paranoia About Nazis, Communists, Saboteurs, Terrorists and Body Snatching Aliens in Film and Television

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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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--Nazi agents, Japanese-American spies, Communist Party subversives, Islamic sleeper cells--as well as the science-fiction threats that play to the same fears, such as alien body-snatchers and android doppelgangers. The work also examines fears inspired by World War I German spies, the Japanese-American internment and the McCarthyite witch-hunts and shows how these issues, and others, played out on screen.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-12-27
Mått178 x 254 x 12 mm
Vikt426 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786446483

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Table of ContentsIntroduction1. German Fifth Columns: The Hun, the Third Reich and the Rise of the Fourth Reich2. The Yellow Peril and the Fear of Japan3. The Red Menace: Bolsheviks, Commies and Atheists in America4. Red Scare: Fifth Column Anticommunist Films from 1949 to 19605. Communist Fifth Columnists After 19606. Muslim Fifth Columns in America7. Invasion of the Body Snatchers8. Brain Eaters, Human Duplicators and Other Science Fictional Fifth Columns9. Invaders, X-Files and Dynamators: Alien Fifth Columns on Television10. Sexual Politics and the War Between Men and Women11. The Master Race12. Satanic and Supernatural Inﬁltration in Film and Television13. Miscellanea: Corporate Takeovers, Secret Societies and the JFK AssassinationAppendix 1: Film CreditsAppendix 2: Television Series Credits and SynopsesBibliographyIndex