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Screen enemies of the American way :

(softcover : alk. paper)

(softcover : alk. paper)

078644648x

9780786446483

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Screen enemies of the American way :

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political paranoia about Nazis, Communists, saboteurs, terrorists and body snatching aliens in film and television /

Fraser A. Sherman

Jefferson, N.C. :

McFarland,

c2011

vi, 234 p. :

ill. ;

26 cm

Includes bibliographical references, index and filmography

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

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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 and shows how these issues, and others, played out on screen"--Provided by publisher

Motion pictures-- Political aspects-- United States

Motion pictures-- Social aspects-- United States

Motion pictures-- United States-- History

Paranoia in motion pictures

Television and politics-- United States-- History

Television-- Social aspects-- United States

Sherman, Fraser A

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