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An Army Of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War

Autor Jim Hoberman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 sep 2012
An incredibly detailed and thorough examination of Hollywood year by year during the first decade of the Cold War. Hoberman's analysis goes beyond the screen and places the films within their larger political context. Combining both film history and cultural criticism Hoberman addresses the dramatic synergy between American politics and American popular culture.
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ISBN-13: 9781595588333
ISBN-10: 1595588337
Pagini: 388
Dimensiuni: 147 x 225 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: The New Press
Colecția The New Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Acknowledgments Introduction: From God's Mouth to Your Ear Prologue: Mission for Hollywood-Stalingrad to V-J Day I. Aliens Among Us: Hollywood, 1946-47 MGM's Manhattan Project: The Beginning or the End? When HUAC Came to Hollywood … Showtime ("Hooray for Robert Taylor!”) Decision at the Waldorf: The Big Mop-up II. 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 III. Redskin Menace from Outer Space: America at War, 1950-52 Across Rio Grande … into Manchuria? This Is Korea? The Communist Was a Thing for the FBI! Three Cases: Joseph L., Carl F., and Elia Kazan Campaign '52: Take Us to Our Leader, Big Jim High Noon in the Universe IV. The PaxAmericanArama: Eisenhower Power, 1953-55 "No One on This Earth Can Help You”: Above and Beyond and 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! (DeMillennium Approaching …) V. Searchin': America on the Road, 1955-56 Coonskin Kids, or the Martians Have Landed On the Brink of the Wild Frontier: Kiss Me Deadly, Rebel Without a 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 Sources Index

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An incredibly detailed and thorough examination of Hollywood year by year during the first decade of the Cold War. Addresses the dramatic synergy between American politics and pop culture.