Racializing subversion: The FBI and the depiction of race in early Cold war movies

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 728-749

  Noakes, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Communist threat; Hollywood; Movies; Racial projects; The FBI

Indexed keywords

RACE;

EID: 0042768476     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0141987032000087389     Document Type: Article

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