Screen Enemies of the American Way

<p> American films like America itself have long been fascinated by the threat of outsiders posing as citizens to destroy the American way of life. This book tracks real-world fears appearing in the movies--Nazi agents Japanese-American spies Communist Party subversives Islamic sleeper cells--as well as the science-fiction threats that play to the same fears such as alien body-snatchers and android doppelgangers. The work also examines fears inspired by World War I German spies the Japanese-American internment and the McCarthyite witch-hunts and shows how these issues and others played out on screen.</p>