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Screen enemies of the American way : political paranoia about Nazis, Communists, saboteurs, terrorists and body snatching aliens in film and television
- Title
- Screen enemies of the American way : political paranoia about Nazis, Communists, saboteurs, terrorists and body snatching aliens in film and television / Fraser A. Sherman.
- Author
- Sherman, Fraser A.
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2011.
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Details
- Description
- vi, 234 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Summary
- "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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references, index and filmography.
- 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.
- Call Number
- MFL 11-3877
- ISBN
- 9780786446483 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 078644648X (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010048313
- OCLC
- YBP 2010048313
- Author
- Sherman, Fraser A.
- Title
- Screen enemies of the American way : political paranoia about Nazis, Communists, saboteurs, terrorists and body snatching aliens in film and television / Fraser A. Sherman.
- Imprint
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references, index and filmography.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 11-3877