J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies : The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood's Cold War /

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Sbardellati argues that the attack on Hollywood drew its motivation from a sincerely held fear that film content endangered national security by fostering a culture that would be at best apathetic to the Cold War struggle, or, at its worst, conducive to communism at home. Those who took part in Holl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sbardellati, John, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
USA > Federal Bureau of Investigation
USA > Committee on Un-American Activities
United States. > Federal Bureau of Investigation
États-Unis. > Federal Bureau of Investigation.
United States. > Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Bibel > Philemonbrief
Kommunismus > Motiv
Ost-West-Konflikt > Motiv
Filmpolitik
Motion pictures > Political aspects
Communism and motion pictures
Cold War (1945-1989) in motion pictures.
Social aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Telecommunications.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Media & Communications.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Guerre froide > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Communisme et cinema > États-Unis.
Guerre froide au cinema.
Cold War > Social aspects > United States.
Communism and motion pictures > United States.
Cold War in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Political aspects > United States > History.
Hollywood Bowl > Los Angeles, Calif.
United States
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Hollywood's Red scare
  • A movie problem
  • The FBI's search for communist propaganda during the Second World War
  • Producing Hollywood's Cold War
  • The coalescence of a counter-subversive network
  • The 1947 HUAC trials
  • Rollback
  • Conclusion : three perspectives on the death of the social problem film.

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