Category: Cinema

In the mid­dle of the last cen­tu­ry, the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca was in full swing at the Com­mu­nist Threat With­in. McCarthy­ism was rife and Hol­ly­wood was in thrall to the bully­boy tac­tics of black­list­ing. The ram­pant suc­cess of I Was A Teenage Were­wolf [1957] in this time peri­od is sur­pris­ing giv­en its quite obvi­ous den­i­gra­tion of Amer­i­can indi­vid­u­al­ism in the face of author­i­tar­i­an con­trol.
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