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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 41
IS  - no. 2
T2  - Literature/Film Quarterly
SP  - 116-28
ID  - bbbc460
T1  - "Orson Welles's Macbeth: Allegory of Anticommunism"
AU  - Marker, Jeff W
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2026
KW  - Macbeth
KW  - religion
KW  - anticommunism
KW  - allegory
LA  - English
AB  - Contends that Orson Welles's Macbeth (1948) is an allegory that condemns the manipulation of the consciousness of the American public during the anticommunist era, when religious fundamentalism and political ideology became synonymous. Asserts that the film portrays Macbeth as a tragic figure caught between God and Satan, representing the forces of right-wing anticommunists and left-wing "anti-American" radicals, and that an interpolated character, the Holy Man, bears a striking resemblance to J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI director who played a central role in the anticommunist movement.
ER  -