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