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.…mehr
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.
A former Florida reporter, Fraser A. Sherman has contributed articles to such publications as Newsweek, Boys Life and Movie Marketplace and is the author of four previous film books and more than two dozen published speculative-fiction short stories. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.
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Table of Contents Introduction 1. German Fifth Columns: The Hun, the Third Reich and the Rise of the Fourth Reich 2. The Yellow Peril and the Fear of Japan 3. The Red Menace: Bolsheviks, Commies and Atheists in America 4. Red Scare: Fifth Column Anticommunist Films from 1949 to 1960 5. Communist Fifth Columnists After 1960 6. Muslim Fifth Columns in America 7. Invasion of the Body Snatchers 8. Brain Eaters, Human Duplicators and Other Science Fictional Fifth Columns 9. Invaders, X-Files and Dynamators: Alien Fifth Columns on Television 10. Sexual Politics and the War Between Men and Women 11. The Master Race 12. Satanic and Supernatural In ltration in Film and Television 13. Miscellanea: Corporate Takeovers, Secret Societies and the JFK Assassination Appendix 1: Film Credits Appendix 2: Television Series Credits and Synopses Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Introduction 1. German Fifth Columns: The Hun, the Third Reich and the Rise of the Fourth Reich 2. The Yellow Peril and the Fear of Japan 3. The Red Menace: Bolsheviks, Commies and Atheists in America 4. Red Scare: Fifth Column Anticommunist Films from 1949 to 1960 5. Communist Fifth Columnists After 1960 6. Muslim Fifth Columns in America 7. Invasion of the Body Snatchers 8. Brain Eaters, Human Duplicators and Other Science Fictional Fifth Columns 9. Invaders, X-Files and Dynamators: Alien Fifth Columns on Television 10. Sexual Politics and the War Between Men and Women 11. The Master Race 12. Satanic and Supernatural In ltration in Film and Television 13. Miscellanea: Corporate Takeovers, Secret Societies and the JFK Assassination Appendix 1: Film Credits Appendix 2: Television Series Credits and Synopses Bibliography Index
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