Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Tables ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction: What More Can Be Said about the Hollywood Blacklist? 1
7. 1. A Bifocal View of Hollywood during the Blacklist Period: Film as Propaganda and Allegory 17
8. 2. I Was a Communist for RKO: Hollywood Anti-Communism and the Problem of Representing Political Beliefs 50
9. 3. Reds and Blacks: Representing Race in Anti-Communist Films 83
10. 4. Stoolies, Cheese-Eaters, and Tie Sellers: Genre, Allegory, and the HUAC Informer 118
11. 5. The Cross and the Sickle: Allegorical Representations of the Blacklist in Historical Films 171
12. 6. Roaming the Plains along the “New Frontier”: The Western as Allegory of the Blacklist and the Cold War 197
13. 7. Loving the Alien: Science Fiction Cinema as Cold War Allegory 239
14. Conclusion: Old Wounds and the Texas Sharpshooter 273
15. Notes 279
16. Bibliography 315
17. Index 329