Ronald Reagan, the movie : and other episodes in political demonology
The fear of the subversive has governed American politics, from the racial conflicts of the early republic to the Hollywood anti-Communism. What are the meanings and sources of these demons? And why does the American political imagination conjure them up? This title answers these questions by examining the American countersubversive tradition.
Print Book, English, 1987
University of California Press, Berkeley [etc.], 1987
miscellanea
XX, 366 s., [28] s. tabl. ; 24 cm.
9780520059375, 9780520064690, 0520059379, 0520064690
750481795
List of Illustrations Preface 1. Ronald Reagan, the Movie 2. Political Repression in the United States 3. The King's Two Bodies: Lincoln, Wilson, Nixon, and Presidential Self-Sacrifice 4. Nonpartisanship and the Group Interest 5. Liberal Society and the Indian Question 6. Nature as Politics and Nature as Romance in America 7. "The Sword Became a Flashing Vision": D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation 8. Kiss Me Deadly: Communism, Motherhood, and Cold War Movies 9. American Political Demonology: A Retrospective Notes Index