Cover of Invasion USA

Book 2017

Invasion USA

1 readers

Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Language
English
Published
2017
  • Motion pictures
  • Motion picture industry
  • Communism and motion pictures
  • Anti-communist movements
  • History

"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. Twenty-one lively essays by film historians examine the aesthetics and politics of more than forty remarkable films of the McCarthy era and the chauvinism that spawned them"--