Making a homefront without a battlefront: The manufacturing of domestic enemies in the early Cold War culture
Language
en
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European journal of American studies. 2012, vol. 7, n° 2
European Association for American Studies
English Abstract
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 ...Read more >
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 homefrontRead less <
English Keywords
Civilisation nord-américaine
Origin
Hal imported