An Army Of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War

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An incredibly detailed and thorough examination of Hollywood year by year during the first decade of the Cold War. Hoberman's analysis goes beyond the screen and places the films within their larger political context. Combining both film history and cultural criticism Hoberman addresses the dramatic synergy between American politics and American popular culture.

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Utterly compulsive reading There's something majestic about the reach of Hoberman's ambitions An Army of Phantoms may prove to be the definitive text on its subject.
Film Comment

An energetic and adventurous book scholarly, even encyclopedic, yet written occasionally in a style akin to the Hush-Hush columns of L.A. Confidential.
London Review of Books

A welcome acknowledgment of how complicated the story of one particular period really is.
National Review

An epic: an alternately fevered and measured account of what might be called the primal scene of American cinema.
Cineaste

An important, overflowing and often compelling study of movie history Smartly conceived, and its richness defies capture in a book review.
Ha'aretz

Author Bio

J. Hoberman is the author, co-author, or editor of a dozen books, including The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties (The New Press) and Film After Film (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema). He has written for Artforum, Bookforum, the London Review ofBooks, The Nation, the New York Review of Books, and the New York Times; has taught cinema history at Cooper Union since 1990; and was, for over thirty years, a film critic for the Village Voice. He lives in New York.