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BL
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634506
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Sherman, Fraser A
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| Title & Author
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Screen enemies of the American way : : political paranoia about Nazis, Communists, saboteurs, terrorists and body snatching aliens in film and television /\ Fraser A. Sherman
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| Publication Statement
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Jefferson, N.C. :: McFarland,, c2011
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vi, 234 p. :: ill. ;; 26 cm
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| ISBN
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9780786446483
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: 078644648x
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Includes bibliographical references, index and filmography
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| Contents
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German fifth columns: the Hun, the Third Reich and the rise of the Fourth Reich -- The yellow peril and the fear of Japan -- The red menace: Bolsheviks, commies and atheists in America -- Red scare: Fifth column anticommunist films from 1949 to 1960 -- Communist fifth columnists after 1960 -- Muslim fifth columns in America -- Invasion of the body snatchers -- Brain eaters, human duplicators and other science fictional fifth columns -- Invaders, X-files and dynamators: alien fifth columns on television -- Sexual politics and the war between men and women -- The master race -- Satanic and supernatural infiltration in film and television -- Miscellanea: corporate takeovers, secret societies and the JFK assassination -- Appendix 1: film credits -- Appendix 2: television series credits and synopses
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| Abstract
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"American films, like America itself, have long been fascinated by the threat of outsiders posing as citizens to destroy the American way of life. This book tracks real-world fears appearing in the movies and shows how these issues, and others, played out on screen"--Provided by publisher
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| Subject
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Motion pictures-- Political aspects-- United States
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Motion pictures-- Social aspects-- United States
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Television and politics-- United States-- History
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Television-- Social aspects-- United States
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Paranoia in motion pictures
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Motion pictures-- United States-- History
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| LC Classification
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PN1995.9.P6S54 2011
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