Invasion USA

"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"—

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 258 pages

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