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Article: Cyndy Hendershot. Anti-Communism and Popular Culture in Mid-Century America.(Book Review)
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- Utopian Studies
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- January 1, 2004
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Cyndy Hendershot. Anti-Communism and Popular Culture in Mid-Century America.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003. 173 pp. $32.00.
THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK will immediately hold your attention, as will the front cover, which portrays a 50s TV set showing a scene from the film The 27th Day against a background (red, of course!) of an atomic explosion. Part of the mushroom cloud displays Soviet symbology: a hammer & sickle and a star. Look even closer and you might discern an uncanny resemblance between the mushroom cloud and Marx! Looks promising, I thought, especially because I was puzzled by the semiotics of the bookcover. Take a glance at the contents page and ...