Screen Is Red - Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold WarPaperback
Screen Is Red - Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold WarPaperback The Screen Is Red portrays Hollywood's ambivalence toward the former Soviet Union before, during, and after the Cold War. Hollywood…
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Screen Is Red - Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold WarPaperback
The Screen Is Red portrays Hollywood's ambivalence toward the former Soviet Union before, during, and after the Cold War. Hollywood portrayed fascism as the greater threat and communism as an aberration embraced by young idealists unaware of its dark side. In the 1930s, communism combated its alter ego, fascism, yet both threatened to undermine the capitalist system, the movie industry's foundational core value.
The Soviets were quickly glorified in such films as Song of Russia, The North Star, Mission to Moscow, Days of Glory, and Counter-Attack. In Ninotchka, all a female commissar needs is a trip to Paris to convert her to capitalism and the luxuries it can offer.The scenario changed when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, making Russia a short-lived ally. But once the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern