Invasion USA: Essays on Anti-Communist Movies of the 1950s and 1960s

by David J. Hogan

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 in 1947--and again in 1951. Studio chiefs, terrified of scandal, scrambled to display their patriotism by producing anti-communist films, from melodramas to thrillers to animated cartoons.

Twenty-one lively new essays...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786499044
• ISBN13: 9780786499045
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher