%0 Journal Article
%T Making a homefront without a battlefront: The manufacturing of domestic enemies in the early Cold War culture
%A Jean-Paul Gabilliet
%J European Journal of American Studies
%D 2012
%I European Association for American Studies
%R 10.4000/ejas.9549
%X Although the Cold War was an undeclared conflict without actual battlefront one of its earliest charcteristics was the emergence in the United States of a homefront-based ˇ°war cultureˇ± targetting domestic enemies. 1947 witnessed the rise in news media of anxieties over alleged threats to domestic stability: in the first few months of the year, a Crime Scare reactivating pre-war concerns about the Mob and, in the summer, the first reported UFO sightings. In both cases the media and public resp...
%K Cold War
%K collective anxieties
%K homefront
%K organized crime
%K UFOs
%K war culture
%K Kenneth Arnold
%K Al Capone
%K Frank Costello
%K Jake Guzik
%K J. Edgar Hoover
%K Estes Kefauver
%K James M. Ragen.
%U http://ejas.revues.org/9549