Cyndy Hendershot is an associate professor of English at Arkansas State University and the author of four books of literary criticism including McFarland’s Anti-Communism and Popular Culture in Mid-Century America (2003). She has published articles in Science-Fiction Studies, Mosaic, and Literature and Psychology and other journals.

“easy to read...a valuable contribution...well organized...interesting...will give reader food for thought”—Utopian Studies.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Introduction     1 The Seduction of Communism     2 Paranoiac Discourse and Anti–Communism     3 Internal and External Communism in Popular Film     4 The Individual Russian and the Communist System     5 Anti–Communism and Ambivalence in Science Fiction     6 Criminals and Communists in Fifties Popular Culture     7 Anti–Communism and Movie Serials     8 Cold War Parody     9 Nuclear Apocalypse and Anti–Communism     10 Cold War Confessions and the FBI Plant     11 Anti–Communism and the Business World     12 The Bear and the Dragon: Representations of Communism in Early 1960s American Culture Conclusion     Notes     Works Cited     Index

Cyndy Hendershot is an associate professor of English at Arkansas State University and the author of four books of literary criticism including McFarland’s Anti-Communism and Popular Culture in Mid-Century America (2003). She has published articles in Science-Fiction Studies, Mosaic, and Literature and Psychology and other journals.

“easy to read...a valuable contribution...well organized...interesting...will give reader food for thought”—Utopian Studies.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Introduction     1 The Seduction of Communism     2 Paranoiac Discourse and Anti–Communism     3 Internal and External Communism in Popular Film     4 The Individual Russian and the Communist System     5 Anti–Communism and Ambivalence in Science Fiction     6 Criminals and Communists in Fifties Popular Culture     7 Anti–Communism and Movie Serials     8 Cold War Parody     9 Nuclear Apocalypse and Anti–Communism     10 Cold War Confessions and the FBI Plant     11 Anti–Communism and the Business World     12 The Bear and the Dragon: Representations of Communism in Early 1960s American Culture Conclusion     Notes     Works Cited     Index

Cyndy Hendershot is an associate professor of English at Arkansas State University and the author of four books of literary criticism including McFarland’s Anti-Communism and Popular Culture in Mid-Century America (2003). She has published articles in Science-Fiction Studies, Mosaic, and Literature and Psychology and other journals.

“easy to read...a valuable contribution...well organized...interesting...will give reader food for thought”—Utopian Studies.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Introduction     1 The Seduction of Communism     2 Paranoiac Discourse and Anti–Communism     3 Internal and External Communism in Popular Film     4 The Individual Russian and the Communist System     5 Anti–Communism and Ambivalence in Science Fiction     6 Criminals and Communists in Fifties Popular Culture     7 Anti–Communism and Movie Serials     8 Cold War Parody     9 Nuclear Apocalypse and Anti–Communism     10 Cold War Confessions and the FBI Plant     11 Anti–Communism and the Business World     12 The Bear and the Dragon: Representations of Communism in Early 1960s American Culture Conclusion     Notes     Works Cited     Index