An army of phantoms [electronic resource] : American movies and the making of the Cold War / J. Hoberman.
Hoberman, J.
2011
PN1995.9.P6 H63 2011eb
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Title An army of phantoms [electronic resource] : American movies and the making of the Cold War / J. Hoberman.
Author Hoberman, J.
ISBN 9781595587275 (electronic book)
9781595580054
Publication Details New York, N.Y. : New Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxi, 383 p.)
Call Number PN1995.9.P6 H63 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43/6582825
Summary An Army of Phantoms- a major new work of film history and cultural criticism from J. Hoberman, one of the foremost film critics writing todayùaddresses the dynamic synergy of American politics and American popular culture during the Cold War's first decade. Heralded by a mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, the years between 1946 and 1956 brought an explosion of affluence and anxiety. Along with U.S. dominance over Europe and a new war in Asia came the birth of the civil rights movement and the first stirrings of a new youth culture. The period saw the movie industry purged of its political left at the same time as the ideological action hero John Wayne reached the peak of his career. Analyzing Hollywood's cavalry Westerns, apocalyptic sci-fi flicks, and biblical spectaculars, along with media events, congressional hearings and political campaigns, and drawing on FBI files and studio records, Hoberman has orchestrated a colorful, sometimes surreal pageant wherein Cecil B. DeMille rubs shoulders with Douglas MacArthur, atomic tests are shown on live TV, God talks on the radio, and Joe McCarthy is bracketed with Marilyn Monroe. Essential reading for film and history buffs, An Army of Phantoms expands on the analysis of the 1960's found in Hoberman's critically acclaimed The Dream Life and offers a lively and astute history of film that is also, to paraphrase Jean-Luc Godard, about the film of history. --Book Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-366) and index.
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Introduction : from God's mouth to your ear
Prologue : mission for Hollywood, Stalingrad to victory
Aliens among us : Hollywood, 1946-47. MGM's Manhattan project : the beginning or the end?
When HUAC came to Hollywood
- Show time ("hooray for Robert Taylor!")
Decision at the Waldorf : the big mop up
Fighting for the ministry of truth, justice, and the American way, 1948-50. The Iron Curtain parts and the campaign begins
Fort Apache, our home
Hollywood alert : from red menace to storm warning
"The saucers are real!" (and guilty of treason)
Sunset/panic/in a lonely place
Countdown
Redskin menace from outer space : America at war, 1950-52. Across Rio Grande- into Manchuria
This is Korea?
The commie was a thing for the FBI!
Three cases: Joseph L., Carl F., Elia Kazan
Campaign '52: take us to our leader, big Jim
High noon in the universe
The paxamericanarama: Eisenhower power, 1953-54. "No one on this earth can help you" : above and beyond, fantasies of invasion
The hammer, the witch trials, and pickup on South Street
After Quo vadis : onward Christian soldier, watch out for the wild one Marilyn ascends, Joe goes down
Sh-boom them! (demillenium approaching . . .)
Searchin' : America on the road, 1955-56. Coonskin kids or, the martians have landed
On the brink of the wild frontier : kiss me deadly, thou rebel without cause!
Better red than dead : body-snatched prisoners of Comanche mind control
"That'll be the day!" the spirit of '56
Epilogue: the face of the crowd.

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