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Hollywood's Cold War (Paperback)
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Hollywood's Cold War (Paperback)
Series: Culture, Politics, and the Cold War
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At a moment when American film reflects a deepening preoccupation
with the Bush administration's War on Terror, this authoritative
and timely book offers the first comprehensive account of
Hollywood's propaganda role during the defining ideological
conflict of the twentieth century: the Cold War. In an analysis of
films dating from America's first Red Scare in the wake of the 1917
Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989,
Tony Shaw examines the complex relationship between filmmakers,
censors, politicians, and government propagandists. Movies, Shaw
demonstrates, were at the center of the Cold War's battle for
hearts and minds. Hollywood's comedies, love stories, musicals,
thrillers, documentaries, and science fiction shockers played a
critical dual role: on the one hand teaching millions of Americans
why communism represented the greatest threat their country had
ever faced, and on the other selling America's liberal-capitalist
ideas around the globe. Drawing on declassified government
documents, studio archives, and filmmakers' private papers, Shaw
reveals the different ways in which cinematic propaganda was
produced, disseminated, and received by audiences during the Cold
War. In the process, he addresses subjects as diverse as women's
fashions, McCarthyism, drug smuggling, Christianity, and American
cultural diplomacy in India. Anyone seeking to understand wartime
propaganda today will find striking contemporary resonance in his
conclusions about Hollywood's versatility and power.
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