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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 / Fraser A. Sherman.

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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 / Fraser A. Sherman.
Author
Sherman, Fraser A.
Publication
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2011.

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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.
Subject
  • Motion pictures > Political aspects > United States
  • Motion pictures > Social aspects > United States
  • Television and politics > United States > History
  • Television > Social aspects > United States
  • Paranoia in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures > United States > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references, index and filmography.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9780786446483 (softcover : alk. paper)
  • 078644648X (softcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010048313
OCLC
635492270
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library