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- Title
Brassbound G-Men and celluloid reds: the FBI's search for communist propaganda in wartime Hollywood.
- Authors
Sbardellati, John
- Abstract
This article traces the development of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) investigation of Hollywood during World War II. Motivated by a fear of Communist propaganda, the FBI initiated this surveillance before the onset of the Cold War. The Bureau conflated the cultural struggle over film with national security concerns. Justifying its investigation as a defense of democracy, the FBI data collected and formulated during these years would soon contribute to the stifling of the freedom of the screen.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ANTI-communist movements; UNITED States history; UNITED States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; COMMUNISM &; motion pictures; PROPAGANDA; MOTION pictures &; politics; HOOVER, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972; MISSION to Moscow (Film); 20TH century United States history
- Publication
Film History, 2008, Vol 20, Issue 4, p412
- ISSN
0892-2160
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/FIL.2008.20.4.412