Anti-communism and popular culture in mid-century America
By: Cyndy Hendershot.
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States.; United States -- Civilization -- 1945-; United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1961-1963.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-170) and index.
Table of contents: title: The seduction of communism; title: Paranoiac discourse and anti-communism; title: Internal and external communism in popular film; title: The individual Russian and the communist system; title: Anti-communism and ambivalence in science fiction; title: Criminals and communists in fifties popular culture; title: Anti-communism and movie serials; title: Cold war parody; title: Nuclear apocalypse and anti-communism; title: Cold war confessions and the FBI plant; title: Anti-communism and the business world; title: The bean and the dragon : representatives of communism in early sixties American culture.