Screen enemies of the American way
Subtitle: political paranoia about Nazis, Communists, saboteurs, terrorists and body snatching aliens in film and television
By: Fraser A. Sherman
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780786446483
Subjects: Motion pictures; Television; Television and politics; Paranoia in motion pictures; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-214), index and filmography.
Table of contents: title: German fifth columns: the Hun, the Third Reich and the rise of the Fourth Reich; title: The yellow peril and the fear of Japan; title: The red menace: Bolsheviks, commies and atheists in America; title: Red scare: Fifth column anticommunist films from 1949 to 1960; title: Communist fifth columnists after 1960; title: Muslim fifth columns in America; title: Invasion of the body snatchers; title: Brain eaters, human duplicators and other science fictional fifth columns; title: Invaders, X-files and dynamators: alien fifth columns on television; title: Sexual politics and the war between men and women; title: The master race; title: Satanic and supernatural infiltration in film and television; title: Miscellanea: corporate takeovers, secret societies and the JFK assassination; title: Appendix 1: film credits; title: Appendix 2: television series credits and synopses.