Red Scared! The Commie Menace in Propaganda and Popular Culture

Name: Red Scared! The Commie Menace in Propaganda and Popular Culture
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ISBN: 9780811828871

ISBN-10: 0811828875

ISBN-13: 9780811828871

Edition: 2000

Authors: Michael Barson, Steven Heller

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Not 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…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Publication date: 4/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Steven Heller is senior Art Director for the New York Times & author of over seventy books on art, culture, & design. He lives in New York City.



Preface: Cold War Style



Timeline: 1848 - 1927 The First Red Scare



Timeline: 1928 - 1944 Between Red Scares


The Hitler-Stalin Pact Foments a New Red Scare


The Soviet Pavilion at the New York World's Fair


Hollywood Kids the Commissars



Timeline: 1944 - 1947 Just a Guy Named Ivan


Comrades in Arms: Hollywood Warms up to Russia



Timeline: 1947 - 1950 The Iron Curtain Descends


Could the Reds Seize Detroit?


How to Identify an American Communist


The Cold War Hits the Silver Screen


How Hollywood Told the Tale of the Cold War



Timeline: 1950 - 1953 "I'm No Communist"


HUAC's So-Called Communist Front Organizations to Which Dashiell Hammett Was Linked


The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover


"I Led Three Lives," Maybe More


Mickey Spillane's One Lonely Night


Television and the Red Menace


Insert: McCarthy


Insert: Reds, By Gum!



Timeline: 1953 - 1957 "We Will Bury You!"


Sputnik and the Space Race


Red Star Over Cuba


Insert: Spy vs.Spy


Beyond Stalin


Insert: Bomb Shelter Chic



Timeline: 1957 - 1962 Pamphlets On Parade


Insert: Red Readings



Timeline: 1963 - 2000 Kremlin Komics


"Communist Kisses!"


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