Screen Enemies of the American Way
Author | : Fraser A. Sherman |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780786462254 |
ISBN-13 | : 0786462256 |
Rating | : 4/5 (256 Downloads) |
Download or read book Screen Enemies of the American Way written by Fraser A. Sherman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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--Nazi agents, Japanese-American spies, Communist Party subversives, Islamic sleeper cells--as well as the science-fiction threats that play to the same fears, such as alien body-snatchers and android doppelgangers. The work also examines fears inspired by World War I German spies, the Japanese-American internment and the McCarthyite witch-hunts and shows how these issues, and others, played out on screen.