Making a homefront without a battlefront: The manufacturing of domestic enemies in the early Cold War culture
hal.structure.identifier | Cultures et Littératures des Mondes Anglophones [CLIMAS] | |
dc.contributor.author | GABILLIET, Jean-Paul | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.description.abstractEn | 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 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | European Association for American Studies | |
dc.subject.en | Civilisation nord-américaine | |
dc.title.en | Making a homefront without a battlefront: The manufacturing of domestic enemies in the early Cold War culture | |
dc.type | Article de revue | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.4000/ejas.9549 | |
dc.subject.hal | Sciences de l'Homme et Société | |
dc.subject.hal | Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Histoire | |
bordeaux.journal | European journal of American studies | |
bordeaux.volume | 7 | |
bordeaux.issue | 2 | |
bordeaux.peerReviewed | oui | |
hal.identifier | hal-01542171 | |
hal.version | 1 | |
hal.popular | non | |
hal.audience | Internationale | |
hal.origin.link | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//hal-01542171v1 | |
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