Anti-communism and popular culture in mid-century America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hendershot, Cynthia
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2003]
Subjects:	Anti-communist movements > United States > History > 20th century. Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century. Mass media > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century. Cold War > Social aspects > United States. United States > Civilization > 1945- United States > Politics and government > 1953-1961. United States > Politics and government > 1961-1963.

Table of 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 bear and the dragon : representatives of communism in early sixties American culture.