Hearings on Hollywood & Communism
- [Communist Infiltration of Hollywood Motion Picture Industry]Call Number: Electronic resourceHearings held before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951-1952 in Los Angeles, California to investigate alleged communist infiltration in the motion picture industry.
- [Communist Activities in the Los Angeles Area]Call Number: Electronic resourceStatements taken in Los Angeles, California as part of investigation into local communist activities. Focuses on organization, finances, and membership of the Communist Party, U.S.A., and involvement with motion picture industry.
- [Communist Activities Among Professional Groups in the Los Angeles Area]Call Number: Electronic resourceExecutive Session. Continuation of hearing to investigate communist activities among professional groups in the Los Angeles, California area. Focuses on the organization and membership of the Communist Party.
- [Hearings, Testimonies, Summaries, etc.] byCall Number: Electronic resourceThis links to all of the documents we have in the library's collections which the Committee produced.
Government & law collection by Call Number: Electronic resourceThe history of the American media industries is intertwined with the histories of American politics and law. The media industries have been both empowered and constrained by numerous laws, including copyright, censorship, and antitrust. At certain points in history, Hollywood has sought to influence politics and the development of laws. However, the same visibility that gives Hollywood cultural influence has made it a frequent target of governments determined to leave their own mark on culture. ...
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These and other titles look at political influence in the movie industry.
Cinema and nation by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.9 .N33 C56 2000ISBN: 9780415208635Ideas of national identity, nationalism and transnationalism are now a central feature of contemporary film studies, as well as primary concerns for film-makers themselves. Embracing a range of national cinemas including Scotland, Poland, France, Turkey, Indonesia, India, Germany and America, Cinema and Nation considers the ways in which film production and reception are shaped by ideas of national belonging and examines the implications of globalisation for the concept of national cinema. ...
DEFA at the crossroads of East German and international film culture by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9783110368055Motion picture production, distribution, exhibition and reception has always been a transnational phenomenon, yet East Germany, situated at the edge of the post-war Iron Curtain, separated by a boundary that became materialized in the Berlin Wall in 1961, resembles nothing if not an island, a protected space where film production developed under the protection of government subsidy and ideological purity. This volume proposes on the contrary that the GDR cinema was never just a monologue. Rather, its media landscape was characterized by constant dialogue, if not competition, with both the capitalist West and socialist East. ...
Moscow prime time: how the Soviet Union built the media empire that lost the cultural Cold War by Call Number: Baker-Berry P 95.82 .S65 R654 2011ISBN: 9780801448744When Nikita Khrushchev visited Hollywood in 1959 only to be scandalized by a group of scantily clad actresses, his message was blunt: Soviet culture would soon consign the mass culture of the West, epitomized by Hollywood, to the "dustbin of history." In Moscow Prime Time, a portrait of the Soviet broadcasting and film industries and of everyday Soviet consumers from the end of World War II through the 1970s, Kristin Roth-Ey shows us how and why Khrushchev's ambitious vision ultimately failed to materialize. ...
Onscreen/offscreen by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781487541774Based on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Onscreen/Offscreen is an exploration of the politics and being of filmic images. The book examines contestations inside and outside the Tamil film industry over the question "what is an image?" Answers to this question may be found in the ontological politics that take place on film sets, in theatre halls, and in the social fabric of everyday life in South India, from populist electoral politics and the gendering of social space to caste uplift and domination. ...
Red carpet: Hollywood, China, and the global battle for cultural supremacy by Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .U6 S355 2022ISBN: 9781984878991An eye-opening and deeply reported narrative that details the surprising role of the movie business in the high-stakes contest between the U.S. and China. From trade to technology to military might, competition between the United States and China dominates the foreign policy landscape. But this battle for global influence is also playing out in a strange and unexpected arena- the movies. The film industry, Wall Street Journal reporter Erich Schwartzel explains, is the latest battleground in the tense and complex rivalry between these two world powers. In recent decades, as China has grown into a giant of the international economy, it has become a crucial source of revenue for the American film industry. ...
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