Invasion USA: essays on anti-communist movies of the 1950s and 1960s

"With the queasy U.S.-Soviet wartime alliance long dissolved into mutual suspicion, the House Un-American Activities Committee launched aggressive investigations of alleged communist activity in the Hollywood film industry. Twenty-one lively essays by film historians examine the aesthetics and...

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Weitere Verfasser: Hogan, David J. 1953- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Jefferson, North Carolina McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers [2017]
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Zusammenfassung:"With the queasy U.S.-Soviet wartime alliance long dissolved into mutual suspicion, the House Un-American Activities Committee launched aggressive investigations of alleged communist activity in the Hollywood film industry. Twenty-one lively essays by film historians examine the aesthetics and politics of more than forty remarkable films of the McCarthy era and the chauvinism that spawned them"...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:viii, 258 pages illustrations
ISBN:9780786499045