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Screen Enemies of the American Way: Political Paranoia about Nazis, Communists, Saboteurs, Terrorists and Body Snatching Aliens in Film and Television
by Sherman, Fraser A.
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Overview
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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--Nazi agents, Japanese-American spies, Communist Party subversives, Islamic sleeper cells--as well as the science-fiction threats that play to the same fears, such as alien body-snatchers and android doppelgangers. The work also examines fears inspired by World War I German spies, the Japanese-American internment and the McCarthyite witch-hunts and shows how these issues, and others, played out on screen.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Sherman, Fraser A.
- ISBN: 9780786446483
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 9.90 x 0.80
- Number Of Pages: 240
- Publication Year: 2010
Language:
English