Red Scared! The Commie Menace in Propaganda and Popular Culture
Michael Barson; Steven HellerNot long ago, Communists seemed to be everywhere: among our politicians, neighbors, favorite actors–even in our drinking water. Red Scared! is a wry tour of the frosty decades of Soviet and American adversity, when anti-Communist hysteria produced fairly hysterical pop-culture items. The voluminous propaganda that the United States produced to combat the Red Menace–not only officially, but in books, films, magazines, games, and more–is explored and vibrantly reproduced here. With a colorful text that serves as a useful historical overview, daring tales from government agents, plot synopses and lurid covers of unintentionally funny pulp novels, and much more, Red Scared! brings the Cold War back home again–this time around with humor (and relief)
| status | checked out |
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| genre | Social Science » Communication |
| publisher | Chronicle Books |
| publish date | 2001 |
| popularity | checked out 1 time(s) |