Invasion USA

<p> 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.</p><p> Twenty-one lively new essays by film historians examine the aesthetics and politics of more than 40 remarkable films of the McCarthy era and the chauvinism that spawned them.</p>