GABILLIET, Jean-Paul

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GABILLIET, Jean-Paul
Cultures et Littératures des Mondes Anglophones [CLIMAS]

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European journal of American studies. 2012, vol. 7, n° 2

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Although the Cold War was an undeclared conflict without actual battlefront, one of its earliest characteristics was the emergence in the United States of a homefront-based “war culture” targetting domestic enemies. 1947 witnessed the rise in news media of anxieties over alleged threats to domestic stability: in the first few months of the year, a Crime Scare reactivating pre-war concerns about the Mob and, in the summer, the first reported UFO sightings. In both cases the media and public responses to these events evidenced a collective interest triggered by news stories that singled out exaggerated or fictitious domestic threats and produced scapegoats (ethnic mobsters and alleged extra-terrestrial visitors) that implicitly confirmed the Americans’ perception of their country as an embattled homefront< Réduire

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Making a homefront without a battlefront: The manufacturing of domestic enemies in the early Cold War culture

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