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A great deal of films in the nineteen forties and fifties portrayed a variety of religious issues. However, it would be wrong to link this to the government or the cold war. The idea that it is not attributed isnt alarming because hollywood is known to make money off of religion. Many of these films provided an outline for comtemporary social and political issues.
Some explicitly encouraged film- goers to see the Cold War as a conflict in which capitalism, anti-communism and Christianity were synonymous, and in which neutral bystanders could be construed as opponents of the West’s divinely ordained mission.
A great example of a film using religion to manipulate people to indirectly find communism to be incompatible …show more content…
A small number of filmmakers reacted to this either by expressing concern with the direction American foreign policy was taking, or by highlighting the negative impact anti-communism was having on American society. Science- fiction movies flourished throughout the Cold War and especially during the nineteen fifties, when seemingly omnipresent images of aliens, giant insects and white- coated megalomaniacs projected the United States as a nation in a constant state of alert. While such images have been submitted to a multitude of interpretations over the years, there seems little doubt that the majority of them dramatised the need for Americans to pull together in the face of internal and external political and social threats. Some science-fiction movies had more obvious Cold War connotations than others. Dozens of films, like Christian Nyby’s The Thing (1951) and William Cameron Menzies’ Invaders from Mars (1953), made quite overt connections between the danger to national security posed by aliens devoid of both moral sense and emotion, and the threat feared from the Red Menace. Others, such as the slug-like movements of Irvin S. Yeoworth, Jr.’s The Blob (1958), provided an objective correlative for the right-wing fear of ‘creeping
A great deal of films in the nineteen forties and fifties portrayed a variety of religious issues. However, it would be wrong to link this to the government or the cold war. The idea that it is not attributed isnt alarming because hollywood is known to make money off of religion. Many of these films provided an outline for comtemporary social and political issues.
Some explicitly encouraged film- goers to see the Cold War as a conflict in which capitalism, anti-communism and Christianity were synonymous, and in which neutral bystanders could be construed as opponents of the West’s divinely ordained mission.
A great example of a film using religion to manipulate people to indirectly find communism to be incompatible …show more content…
A small number of filmmakers reacted to this either by expressing concern with the direction American foreign policy was taking, or by highlighting the negative impact anti-communism was having on American society. Science- fiction movies flourished throughout the Cold War and especially during the nineteen fifties, when seemingly omnipresent images of aliens, giant insects and white- coated megalomaniacs projected the United States as a nation in a constant state of alert. While such images have been submitted to a multitude of interpretations over the years, there seems little doubt that the majority of them dramatised the need for Americans to pull together in the face of internal and external political and social threats. Some science-fiction movies had more obvious Cold War connotations than others. Dozens of films, like Christian Nyby’s The Thing (1951) and William Cameron Menzies’ Invaders from Mars (1953), made quite overt connections between the danger to national security posed by aliens devoid of both moral sense and emotion, and the threat feared from the Red Menace. Others, such as the slug-like movements of Irvin S. Yeoworth, Jr.’s The Blob (1958), provided an objective correlative for the right-wing fear of ‘creeping