Article: BRITISH CINEMA AND THE COLD WAR: THE STATE, PROPAGANDA, AND CONSENSUS.(Book Review)

BRITISH CINEMA AND THE COLD WAR: THE STATE, PROPAGANDA, AND CONSENSUS

By Tony Shaw, London: I. B. Tauris, 2001. 281 pp. $59.50 cloth.

According to Tony Shaw, cinematic propaganda played as large of a role in the fighting of the cold war as did missile stockpiles and submarine fleets. The Hollywood films that perpetuated the Red Scare during this era continue to receive the majority of public and scholarly attention, whereas British cinema's role in the production of anti-communist campaigns is largely ignored. As a result, Shaw's work, which focuses on the United Kingdom's cinematic treatment of the time, primarily from 1945 to 1965, offers a valuable ...

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