Hollywood During The Cold War

This paper will be discussing and examining the american movies of the Cold War and how watching those movies changed United States citizens point of view on their opposing country. It will show how the mass media can change the thinking of a person. This happens in two ways: it makes American citizens look negative at the Soviets but positive at their leaders. Countries like America used movies to give propaganda message and get support from their audience during the Cold War. This analysis will eventually prove that America used movies as a weapon to win the hearts of the people by changing their perspective. Such a change can lead to action. However, the results can be both positive and negative. The tension was so high because America had

Films on the Cold War incorporates elements of film, as well as aspects of modern war such as social, diplomatic and political history. "It looks behind the scenes to determine which individuals, political organizations and government departments were involved in the filmmaking process.”(Leab,1) Cold War movies shows how the political economy was affected the content and distribution of Cold War by the American Cinema and also they didn’t focus on the complete Cold War, instead they focused on the certain main issue of the Cold War at the expense of others.This examines the relation between "Hollywood Cold War coverage and the US political establishment’s views on the conflict, and, ultimately, considers the influence Hollywood films had on the public’s perceptions of the Cold War in the United States and elsewhere.”(Leab,2) American movies has been in the war against communism for almost 3 decades before the Senator Joseph McCarthy’s. The release of the movies were carefully chosen from a wide range of some famous genres such as comedies, docudramas and much

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