The Cold War impacted nearly all aspects of America- including political and cultural life. Films, demonstrated, the center of the Cold War's battle. Hollywood's comedies, love stories, musicals, thrillers, documentaries, and science fiction played a critical role, teaching millions of Americans why communism represented the greatest threat the country had ever faced, while also selling America's liberal-capitalist ideas around the globe. Alien invasion was the topic of such films as The Thing from Another World (1951), The War of the Worlds (1953), and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). These films were invasion narratives that described the habits of Cold War, in these films alien invasion stood for Soviet aggression. Their fictional world portrayed the world of divisions between good and evil in which they were produced, this, teaching audiences to question the authority of the American government in its war against communism. America was also very concerned with Russian so a lot of films were on foreigners spying on America. Many of Americans worries were shown through films during The Cold War.
Citation: Prono, Luca. "Popular Culture and Cold War." Americans at War, edited by John P. Resch, vol. 4: 1946-Present, Macmillan Reference USA, 2005, pp. 162-164. U.S. History in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3427300414/UHIC?u=imgacademy&xid=6208927f. Accessed 28 Nov. 2017.
Citation: Prono, Luca. "Popular Culture and Cold War." Americans at War, edited by John P. Resch, vol. 4: 1946-Present, Macmillan Reference USA, 2005, pp. 162-164. U.S. History in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3427300414/UHIC?u=imgacademy&xid=6208927f. Accessed 28 Nov. 2017.