American movies and the Cold War

This week we mark what was arguably the height of the Cold War, in the 50 anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis.   That Cold War would, for years, permeate every aspect of our culture. The paranoia and anxiety of the period was perhaps most notably reflected in our films, and the divisions of the of the time were part and parcel of the industry that produced them. One of our nations most distinguished film critics, J Hoberman looks at this connection between American movies and the Cold War in his new book An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War. My conversation with J. Hoberman: