J. Hoberman Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War The New Press, March 2011. 432 pp.

Army of Phantoms

<h4>Steven J. Ross is Professor of History at the University of Southern California. His most recent book, Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics, received a Film Scholars Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Ross is also co-founder and co-director of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.</h4>

Steven J. Ross

The Paranoid Style: J. Hoberman’s “Army of Phantoms”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

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Steven J. Ross is Professor of History at the University of Southern California. His most recent book, Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics, received a Film Scholars Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Ross is also co-founder and co-director of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.