Invasion USA
Subtitle: essays on anti-communist movies of the 1950s and 1960s
By: edited by David J. Hogan
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780786499045
Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion picture industry; Communism and motion pictures; Anti-communist movements; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.