Invasion Usa: Essays On Anti-Communist Movies Of The 1950S And 1960S

With the queasy U.S.-Soviet wartime alliance long dissolved into mutual suspicion, the House Un-American Activities Committee launched aggressive investigations of alleged communist activity in the Hollywood film industry in 1947--and again in 1951. Studio chiefs, terrified of scandal, scrambled to display their patriotism by producing anti-communist films, from melodramas to thrillers to animated cartoons. Twenty-one lively new essays by film historians examine the aesthetics and politics of more than 40 remarkable films of the McCarthy era and the chauvinism that spawned them.

• | Author: David J. Hogan
• | Publisher: Mcfarland & Company
• | Publication Date: Oct 12, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 266 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Performing Arts
• | ISBN-10: 0786499044
• | ISBN-13: 9780786499045