Better Dead Than Red: Nostalgic Look at Russiaphobia Red-Baiting, and Other Commie Madness

Barson, Michael

ISBN 10: 1562829742 / ISBN 13: 9781562829742

Edité par Hyperion, 1992

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Synopsis :

Book by Barson Michael

From Publishers Weekly: This look at anticommunist fervor in the U. S. offers commentary on movie posters, comic books, magazine articles and other artifacts that illustrate the near-hysteria that gripped the country at the height of the Cold War. Each item--a poster for the film The Red Menace , a 1944 Look magazine profile of Stalin ("A Guy Named Joe")--is accompanied by Barson's ( Lost, Lonely, and Vicious ) brief, superficial interpretation. Most of the memorabilia is momentarily effective and amusing, as with the comic book "Behind the Romantic Curtain," whose hero, stirring as if from a bad dream, sits up in bed and insists, "I'm not going to let myself fall in love with a rotten Communist. I'm not! I swear it!" But on the whole, the fragments presented never add up to prove any substantial point. In his introduction Barson states that "selective amnesia" seems to have settled over the collective "American Memory." It appears to have touched him as well: although a two-page timetable of Russian history goes up to 1990, the book ends with the Vietnam War, and the joking two-word conclusion "They lost" does nothing to relate the events of the past with the present and future.
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Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Better Dead Than Red: Nostalgic Look at ...
Éditeur : Hyperion
Date d'édition : 1992
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Very Good