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Anti-communism and popular culture in mid-century America / Cyndy Hendershot.
Van Pelt Library E743.5 .H425 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hendershot, Cynthia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anti-communist movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Anti-communist movements.
- United States.
- History.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Mass media--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Mass media.
- Mass media--Political aspects.
- Cold War--Social aspects--United States.
- Cold War.
- Social aspects.
- United States--Civilization--1945-.
- Civilization.
- United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Politics and government--1961-1963.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2003]
- Summary:
- Not long after the Allied victories in Europe and Japan, America's attention turned from world war to cold war. The perceived threat of communism had a significant impact on all levels of American popular culture, from government propaganda films like Red Nightmare to The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. This work examines representations of anti-communist sentiment in American popular culture from the early fifties through the mid-sixties: television programs, films, novels, journalism, maps, memoirs, and other works that presented anti-communist ideology to millions of Americans. The book points out the different strands of anti-communist rhetoric, such as liberal and countersubversive ones, that dominated popular culture in different media, and pieces together a complicated story of producers' and consumers' ideas of communism through close study of the cultural artifacts of the Cold War.
- Contents:
- The seduction of communism
- Paranoiac discourse and anti-communism
- Internal and external communism in popular film
- The individual Russian and the communist system
- Anti-communism and ambivalence in science-fiction
- Criminals and communists in fifties popular culture
- Anti-communism and movie serial
- Cold war parody
- Nuclear apocalypse and anti-communism
- Cold war confessions and the FBI plant
- Anti-communism and the business world
- The bean and the dragon : representatives of communism in early sixties American culture.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-170) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0786414405
- OCLC:
- 51093099
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