Year of Publication: 2007
Author: Tony Shaw / Tony Shaw
Genre or theme: Cinema, politics, USA
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 978-1-55849-612-5
Series: Culture, Politics, and the ColdWar
English language
Format:PDF
Interactive table of contents: Yes
Number of pages: 313 (342)
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.
Hollywood’s Cold War
Hollywood’s Cold War
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Love and defection
Political economy, censorship and the cinematic cool war, 1917–39
Full dress rehearsal
An Italian job
A political pas de deux
Conclusion
The enemy within
Hollywood on trial
Deviants, hypocrites and murderers
Watching the detectives
Louis de Rochement and the art of docudrama
A picture of studied vigilance
Conclusion
Projecting a prophetfor profit
Pressing Animal Farm into Cold War service
The Office of Policy Coordination, film and the British connection
Seeing is believing
A film for all ages
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Cold War novel par excellence
Big drama, small screen
Peter Rathvon, the USIA and another happy ending
Disappointment for the USIA
Conclusion
Of gods and moguls
Religion, politics and Cold War propaganda
Missionaries, martyrs and fighter pilots
Mobilising the past
A prophet in celluloid
Allegorical authenticity
The Bible in Technicolor
Conclusion
Negotiable dissent
Corruption, greed, and lessons from space
The gunslinger’s accomplice
Nightmare on Main Street
Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds
Conclusion
Turning a negative into a positive
When Marilyn went off message
America’s Achilles heel
Cultural diplomacy of a celluloid kind: The USIA’s film machine
George Stevens, Jr., and the golden age of USIA documentary
Framing race
Revisiting Little Rock
Conclusion
A cowboy in combats
Hollywood and the Cold War military-industrial complex
Militant Liberty
Wayne’s war
Vietnam: the semi-invisible war
Dear Mr President
Scripting Vietnam: Who’s in charge here?
Propaganda by numbers
Racist and immoral — and a box office hit
Conclusion
Secrets and lies
New Hollywood — old network
Schneider, Davis and Ellsberg: Mavericks at the movies
First an undeclared war — now an unseen film
Pox Americana
Sensation and self-flagellation
Paranoid time
Pollack and Redford: Liberals sound the conspiracy alarm
Who guards the guardians?
Blurred vision
Conclusion
The empire strikes back
Back to the future
Anarchists and adventurers
Buddies on a new beat
Conclusion
Conclusion
Bibliography
Unpublished material
Published documentary sources
Newspapers and periodicals
Film journals and trade papers
Books
Articles
Conference papers and theses
DVDs
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