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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (265 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801464218
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the MoviesDDC classification:
  • 384.8097309045
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.P6
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hollywood's Red Scare -- 1. A Movie Problem -- 2. The FBI's Search for Communist Propaganda during the Second World War -- 3. Producing Hollywood's Cold War -- 4. The Coalescence of a Countersubversive Network -- 5. The 1947 HUAC Trials -- 6. Rollback -- Conclusion: Three Perspectives on the Death of the Social Problem Film -- Appendix: Analysis of Motion Pictures Containing Propaganda: An FBI Filmography of Suspect Movies -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: In J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies, John Sbardellati examines Hollywood's key role as a cultural, political, and ideological battleground of the early Cold War, providing a new consideration of Hollywood's history and the post-World War II Red Scare.
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Intro -- J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hollywood's Red Scare -- 1. A Movie Problem -- 2. The FBI's Search for Communist Propaganda during the Second World War -- 3. Producing Hollywood's Cold War -- 4. The Coalescence of a Countersubversive Network -- 5. The 1947 HUAC Trials -- 6. Rollback -- Conclusion: Three Perspectives on the Death of the Social Problem Film -- Appendix: Analysis of Motion Pictures Containing Propaganda: An FBI Filmography of Suspect Movies -- Notes -- Index.

In J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies, John Sbardellati examines Hollywood's key role as a cultural, political, and ideological battleground of the early Cold War, providing a new consideration of Hollywood's history and the post-World War II Red Scare.

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