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Book

An army of phantoms : American movies and the making of the Cold War

Call Number

  • 791.43 H6829 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York, NY : The New Press, 2011.

Physical Description

xxi, 383 p. 24 cm.

Contents

  • Introduction : from God's mouth to your ear
  • Prologue : mission for Hollywood, Stalingrad to victory
  • Aliens among us : Hollywood, 1946-47. MGM's Manhattan project : the beginning or the end?
  • When HUAC came to Hollywood--- Show time ("hooray for Robert Taylor!")
  • Decision at the Waldorf : the big mop up
  • Fighting for the ministry of truth, justice, and the American way, 1948-50. The Iron Curtain parts and the campaign begins
  • Fort Apache, our home
  • Hollywood alert : from red menace to storm warning
  • "The saucers are real!" (and guilty of treason)
  • Sunset/panic/in a lonely place
  • Countdown
  • Redskin menace from outer space : America at war, 1950-52. Across Rio Grande- into Manchuria
  • This is Korea?
  • The commie was a thing for the FBI!
  • Three cases: Joseph L., Carl F., Elia Kazan
  • Campaign '52: take us to our leader, big Jim
  • High noon in the universe
  • The paxamericanarama: Eisenhower power, 1953-54. "No one on this earth can help you" : above and beyond, fantasies of invasion
  • The hammer, the witch trials, and pickup on South Street
  • After Quo vadis : onward Christian soldier, watch out for the wild one Marilyn ascends, Joe goes down
  • Sh-boom them! (demillenium approaching . . .)
  • Searchin' : America on the road, 1955-56. Coonskin kids or, the martians have landed
  • On the brink of the wild frontier : kiss me deadly, thou rebel without cause!
  • Better red than dead : body-snatched prisoners of Comanche mind control
  • "That'll be the day!" the spirit of '56
  • Epilogue: the face of the crowd.

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