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PublisherMcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers

ISBN-100786499044

ISBN-139780786499045

eBay Product ID (ePID)237700598

Product Key Features

Number of Pages266 Pages

Publication NameInvasion USA : Essays on Anti-Communist Movies of the 1950s and 1960s

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2017

SubjectFilm / General, Film / History & Criticism

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPerforming Arts

AuthorDavid J. Hogan

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight16.2 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width7 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2017-032819

ReviewsValuable...is an excellent examination of how movies made during this period reflected the Cold War attitudes of the country where they were made. It puts into perspective how historical events influenced the film industry-- Filmfax .|9780786499045|, Over 40 movies, some B-films as well some major releases, receive critical attention here and this collection will be informative to genre fans as well as to historians and students of American Studies. - Popcultureshelf.com|9780786499045|

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Table Of ContentTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Communism, Movies and the Big Dance Party (David J. Hogan) Part 1: Space Invaders Target Earth: Politicians from Venus (John T. Soister) Not of This Earth: Myth, Brooks Brothers and Subversion (David J. Hogan) The Cold Hands of Strangers: The Politics of Disaster in Eight Invasion Thrillers of the 1950s (Steven Thornton) Part 2: Red Mischief Here, There and Everywhere Happy Trails in Cold War Valley: Bells of Coronado and Spoilers of the Plains (Ted Okuda) The Flying Saucer: Top Secret Travelogue (David J. Hogan) The Whip Hand: Accidental Template for Fear and Paranoia (Mark A. Miller) Artists and Models: The Day the Slobs Saved Democracy (Ermine DeGraffenried) The Girl in the Kremlin: Can a Monster Change Its Face? (Zsófia Bodnár-Hamilton) Atomic Thrillers and the Danger at Home (Arthur Joseph Lundquist) Memo to the State Department: Seven Overlooked Cold War Films (Chase Winstead) Part 3: Dupes, Victims and Crusaders Big Brains and Betrayal: Walk a Crooked Mile (Bruce Dettman) Cvetic Takes One for the Team: I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (Bruce Dettman) American Virtue and Big Jim McLain (Gaye Winston Lardner) Trial: Love in a Time of Communism (Anthony Ambrogio) The Tears of a Clown: Chaplin's A King in New York (Mark Clark) Riddle of the Pinks: Did The Fearmakers Have The Whip Hand? (Reynold Humphries) Part 4: Total War The End of Civilization and Its Dis Table of Contents : Five and The World, the Flesh and the Devil, Two Films of Massive Post-Nuclear Depopulation (Lyndon W. Joslin) Dream of Tyranny: Invasion USA (Bruce Dettman) Part 5: Rot and Response God vs. the Commies: Red Planet Mars (Bryan Senn) Violent Saturday: The Danger Within Us (David J. Hogan) Panic in Year Zero! It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine) (Mark Clark) About the Contributors Index

SynopsisWith 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 in 1947--and again in 1951. Studio chiefs, terrified of scandal, scrambled to display their patriotism by producing anti-communist films, from melodramas to thrillers to animated cartoons. Twenty-one lively new essays by film historians examine the aesthetics and politics of more than 40 remarkable films of the McCarthy era and the chauvinism that spawned them., In twenty-one essays, sixteen film historians scrutinize more than forty films from the anti-Red cycle of the 1950s and '60s, including many provocative examples that have fallen into undeserved obscurity. Concerned equally with the pictures' aesthetic, political, and social ramifications, the essays capture the essence not only of some remarkable movies, but the period that spawned them.

LC Classification NumberPN1995.9.P6I68 2017