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hal.structure.identifierCultures et Littératures des Mondes Anglophones [CLIMAS]
dc.contributor.authorGABILLIET, Jean-Paul
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractEnAlthough 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
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherEuropean Association for American Studies
dc.subject.enCivilisation nord-américaine
dc.title.enMaking a homefront without a battlefront: The manufacturing of domestic enemies in the early Cold War culture
dc.typeArticle de revue
dc.identifier.doi10.4000/ejas.9549
dc.subject.halSciences de l'Homme et Société
dc.subject.halSciences de l'Homme et Société/Histoire
bordeaux.journalEuropean journal of American studies
bordeaux.volume7
bordeaux.issue2
bordeaux.peerReviewedoui
hal.identifierhal-01542171
hal.version1
hal.popularnon
hal.audienceInternationale
hal.origin.linkhttps://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//hal-01542171v1
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