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

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

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Between 1942 and 1958, J. Edgar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a sweeping and sustained investigation of the motion picture industry to expose Hollywood’s alleged subversion of "the American Way" through its depiction of social problems, class differences, and alternati...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Sbardellati, John,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 10 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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