Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Contents
Introduction -- The road not taken -- The red sextet -- Calling Dr. Death -- Creatures from the id -- Worlds elsewhere -- Amid the alien corn -- Apocalypse then -- Red skies over China -- "Better dead than red" -- Commies, commies everywhere -- Microfilm mania -- Madness risen from hell -- Curtain up! -- Walking a tightrope -- The forgotten war -- Meanwhile, back in the West ... -- Alfred Hitchcock and Cold War espionage -- Hollywood's cold warrior: John Wayne -- Home front liberals -- The year of living dangerously -- After such knowledge.
Summary
A treatment of cinema's long and fraught relations with the monstrous symbols of Soviet communism.
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