LEADER 04978nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910954797603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780801464683 010 $a0801464684 010 $a9780801464218 010 $a0801464218 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801464218 035 $a(CKB)2670000000185639 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000646383 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11417681 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000646383 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10685186 035 $a(PQKB)11564801 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001499061 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138319 035 $a(OCoLC)793494429 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28917 035 $a(DE-B1597)478404 035 $a(OCoLC)979575655 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801464218 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138319 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10555822 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681821 035 $a(Perlego)534327 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32140776 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32140776 035 $a(OCoLC)1409720371 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000185639 100 $a20110914d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJ. Edgar Hoover goes to the movies $ethe FBI and the origins of Hollywood's Cold War /$fJohn Sbardellati 205 $a2nd ed. 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations (black and white) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781322505398 311 08$a132250539X 311 08$a9780801450082 311 08$a080145008X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Hollywood's Red Scare -- $t1. A Movie Problem -- $t2. The FBI's Search for Communist Propaganda during the Second World War -- $t3. Producing Hollywood's Cold War -- $t4. The Coalescence of a Countersubversive Network -- $t5. The 1947 HUAC Trials -- $t6. Rollback -- $tConclusion: Three Perspectives on the Death of the Social Problem Film -- $tAppendix: Analysis of Motion Pictures Containing Propaganda: An FBI Filmography of Suspect Movies -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aBetween 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 Movies, John Sbardellati provides a new consideration of Hollywood's history and the post-World War II Red Scare. In addition to governmental intrusion into the creative process, he details the efforts of left-wing filmmakers to use the medium to bring social problems to light and the campaigns of their colleagues on the political right, through such organizations as the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, to prevent dissemination of "un-American" ideas and beliefs.Sbardellati argues that the attack on Hollywood drew its motivation from a sincerely held fear that film content endangered national security by fostering a culture that would be at best apathetic to the Cold War struggle at best, or, at its worst, conducive to communism at home. Those who took part in Hollywood's Cold War struggle, whether on the left or right, shared one common trait: a belief that the movies could serve as engines for social change. This strongly held assumption explains why the stakes were so high and, ultimately, why Hollywood became one of the most important ideological battlegrounds of the Cold War. 606 $aMotion pictures$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aCold War in motion pictures 606 $aCommunism and motion pictures$zUnited States 606 $aCold War$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 615 0$aMotion pictures$xPolitical aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aCold War in motion pictures. 615 0$aCommunism and motion pictures 615 0$aCold War$xSocial aspects 676 $a384/.8097309045 700 $aSbardellati$b John$f1973-$01825588 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910954797603321 996 $aJ. Edgar Hoover goes to the movies$94393459 997 $aUNINA