- Home
- Browser a Book
- Hollywood’s Cold War (Volume in the Series Culture, Politics, and the Cold War. fo) (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War) (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)
Hollywood’s Cold War (Volume in the Series Culture, Politics, and the Cold War. fo) (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War) (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)
Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: war, cold, politics, culture, volume, hollywood, series
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1558496122
ISBN-13: 9781558496125
Book Description:
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.
Reviews:
Loading Google Book Reviews...
