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The Screen Is Red - Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold War (Hardcover)
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The Screen Is Red - Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold War (Hardcover)
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The Screen Is Red portrays Hollywood's ambivalence toward the
former Soviet Union before, during, and after the Cold War. In the
1930s, communism combated its alter ego, fascism, yet both
threatened to undermine the capitalist system, the movie industry's
foundational core value. Hollywood portrayed fascism as the greater
threat and communism as an aberration embraced by young idealists
unaware of its dark side. In Ninotchka, all a female commissar
needs is a trip to Paris to convert her to capitalism and the
luxuries it can offer. The scenario changed when Nazi Germany
invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, making Russia a short-lived ally.
The Soviets were quickly glorified in such films as Song of Russia,
The North Star, Mission to Moscow, Days of Glory, and
Counter-Attack. But once the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe,
the scenario changed again. America was now swarming with Soviet
agents attempting to steal some crucial piece of microfilm. On
screen, the atomic detonations in the Southwest produced mutations
in ants, locusts, and spiders, and revived long-dead monsters from
their watery tombs. The movies did not blame the atom bomb
specifically but showed what horrors might result in addition to
the iconic mushroom cloud. Through the lens of Hollywood, a nuclear
war might leave a handful of survivors (Five), none (On the Beach,
Dr. Strangelove), or cities in ruins (Fail-Safe). Today the threat
is no longer the Soviet Union, but international terrorism. Author
Bernard F. Dick argues, however, that the Soviet Union has not lost
its appeal, as evident from the popular and critically acclaimed
television series The Americans. More than eighty years later, the
screen is still red.
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