Monsters on Maple Street [electronic resource] : the Twilight Zone and the postwar American dream / David J. Brokaw.
"Post-World War II America has often been mythologized by successive generations as an exceptional period of prosperity and comfort. At a time when the Cold War was understood to be a battle of ideas as much as military prowess, the entertainment business relied heavily on subtle psychological marke...
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Lexington :
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2023.
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Monsters on Maple Street: The Twilight Zone and the Postwar American Dream |
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Contents:
- A haunting hatred: living in the shadows of White supremacy
- Fighting a war, combating a myth: how the horrors of World War II shaped The Twilight Zone
- Cold War space and technology: a fertile frontier or a new human wasteland
- Duck, cover, and accuse: Cold War paranoia remakes the American landscape
- Cold War childhood: containment or entanglement?
- White-collar weariness: the planned obsolescence of selfhood in postwar America's marketplace
- Conclusion: "These things cannot be confined to The Twilight Zone.