J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies – The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood`s Cold War by Sbardellati, John - 2012

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Cornell University Press, 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 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 alternative political ideologies. FBI informants (their names still redacted today) reported to Hoover s G-men on screenplays and screenings of such films as Frank Capra s It s a Wonderful Life (1946), noting that this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show that people who had money were mean and despicable characters. The FBI s anxiety over this film was not unique; it extended to a wide range of popular and critical successes, including The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Crossfire (1947) and On the Waterfront (1954). In J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the… Read More

Hardback. New. 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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Hardback. New. 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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