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2. The FBI’s Search for Communist Propaganda during the Second World War

© 2017 Cornell University Press, Ithaca

© 2017 Cornell University Press, Ithaca

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Introduction: Hollywood’s Red Scare 1
  5. 1. A Movie Problem 9
  6. 2. The FBI’s Search for Communist Propaganda during the Second World War 41
  7. 3. Producing Hollywood’s Cold War 69
  8. 4. The Coalescence of a Countersubversive Network 106
  9. 5. The 1947 HUAC Trials 131
  10. 6. Rollback 159
  11. Conclusion: Three Perspectives on the Death of the Social Problem Film 184
  12. Appendix: Analysis of Motion Pictures Containing Propaganda: An FBI Filmography of Suspect Movies 197
  13. Notes 209
  14. Index 247
J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies
This chapter is in the book J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies
https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801464218-004

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Introduction: Hollywood’s Red Scare 1
  5. 1. A Movie Problem 9
  6. 2. The FBI’s Search for Communist Propaganda during the Second World War 41
  7. 3. Producing Hollywood’s Cold War 69
  8. 4. The Coalescence of a Countersubversive Network 106
  9. 5. The 1947 HUAC Trials 131
  10. 6. Rollback 159
  11. Conclusion: Three Perspectives on the Death of the Social Problem Film 184
  12. Appendix: Analysis of Motion Pictures Containing Propaganda: An FBI Filmography of Suspect Movies 197
  13. Notes 209
  14. Index 247
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