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I Was a Cold War Monster: Horror Films, Eroticism and the Cold War Imagination.(Book Review)
I Was a Cold War Monster: Horror Films, Eroticism and the Cold War Imagination. Cyndy Hendershot. Bowling Green, OH: Popular Press, 2001.
Monsters. The Cold War imagination was full of them. They came forth from outer space (It Came from Outer Space), dark lagoons (Creature from the Black Lagoon), and the even from the depths of the human subconscious (Forbidden Planet).
In I Was a Cold War Monster, Cyndy Hendershot examines the fascination with monsters in 1950s American and British cinema. As Hendershot notes, some of the deepest fears and fantasies of Cold War society found expression in horror films of the period: "Beneath the seemingly universal terror of werewolves and vampires, lurked very real and contemporary concerns" (1). Hendershot "reads" fifties horror films "within the framework of social discourses that attempted to understand a society beset by fears of infiltration both from without and within" (1).
The book is divided into four parts: Eroticism and Fifties Horror; Evil Others; Horror in the Home; and the delightfully titled Teenagers, Moms, and Other Monsters. Hendershot casts a wide net to examine such films as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), The Astounding She-Monster (1957), The Fly (1958), It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958), The Giant Gila Monster (1959), and Village of the Damned (1960).
Drawing heavily on the work of Georges Bataille, Hendershot examines the societal concerns expressed in these films "in tandem with the erotic and the personal" (3), arguing that "Fifties horror films far from being escapist, charted in their own way many of the ...
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