Ebook: An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War

An Army of Phantoms is a major new work of history and film criticism from the highly regarded critic J. Hoberman. Here he applies the same dynamic synergy of American politics and American popular culture to the Cold War's first decade that he brought to the 1960s in the critically acclaimed The Dream Life . The years between 1946 and 1956 brought U.S. dominance over Europe and a new war in Asia, as well as the birth of the civil rights movement and the stirrings of a new youth culture. The period saw the movie industry purged of its political left while the rise of ideological action hero Jo.;Acknowledgments; Introduction: From Gods Mouth to Your Ear; Prologue: Mission for Hollywood--Stalingrad to V-J Day; I. Aliens Among Us: Hollywood, 1946-47; MGM's Manhattan Project: The Beginning or the End?; When HUAC Came to Hollywood . . .; Showtime ("Hooray for Robert Taylor!"); Decision at the Waldorf: The Big Mop-up; II. 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.