By Tony Shaw
At a second while American movie displays a deepening preoccupation with the Bush administration's battle on Terror, this authoritative and well timed ebook deals the 1st accomplished account of Hollywood's propaganda function throughout the defining ideological clash of the 20 th century: the chilly battle. In an research of movies relationship from America's first purple Scare within the wake of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the cave in of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Tony Shaw examines the advanced dating among filmmakers, censors, politicians, and govt propagandists. videos, Shaw demonstrates, have been on the middle of the chilly War's conflict for hearts and minds. Hollywood's comedies, love tales, musicals, thrillers, documentaries, and technology fiction shockers performed a serious twin position: at the one hand instructing hundreds of thousands of usa citizens why communism represented the best probability their kingdom had ever confronted, and at the different promoting America's liberal-capitalist principles all over the world. Drawing on declassified executive files, studio data, and filmmakers' inner most papers, Shaw unearths different ways that cinematic propaganda used to be produced, disseminated, and obtained via audiences throughout the chilly warfare. within the method, he addresses matters as various as women's models, McCarthyism, drug smuggling, Christianity, and American cultural international relations in India. somebody looking to comprehend wartime propaganda this present day will locate outstanding modern resonance in his conclusions approximately Hollywood's versatility and tool.
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40 Hollywood’s Cold War 74 On the ‘Classical Music Wars’ between East and West see Caute, Dancer, pp. 379–44. 1, Box 21, Arthur Freed Collection, USC. 76 Historian Helen Laville attributes greater significance to the movie’s critique of American popular culture. For this, plus a detailed examination of the symbolic power of feminine consumption in Ninotchka and Silk Stockings, see Helen Laville, ‘ “Our Country Endangered by Underwear”: Fashion, Femininity, and the Seduction Narrative in Ninotchka and Silk Stockings’, Diplomatic History, Vol.
40 Hollywood’s Cold War 74 On the ‘Classical Music Wars’ between East and West see Caute, Dancer, pp. 379–44. 1, Box 21, Arthur Freed Collection, USC. 76 Historian Helen Laville attributes greater significance to the movie’s critique of American popular culture. For this, plus a detailed examination of the symbolic power of feminine consumption in Ninotchka and Silk Stockings, see Helen Laville, ‘ “Our Country Endangered by Underwear”: Fashion, Femininity, and the Seduction Narrative in Ninotchka and Silk Stockings’, Diplomatic History, Vol.
8–9. For the impact that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact had on the politics of Hollywood, and the disintegration of the liberal-communist Popular Front in particular, see Ceplair and Englund, Inquisition, pp. 129–52. The Pact cast suspicion on liberals in Hollywood, including Melvyn Douglas, who was forced to use his role in Ninotchka as evidence of his opposition to communism. See Photoplay, September 1940, pp. 23, 88. New York Times, 11 October 1939; Sunday Worker, New York, 19 November 1939; Daily Worker, 24 November 1939.