Abstract
There was a time when scholarship on the subject of the Cold War and Hollywood meant simply studies of the impact of Joseph McCarthy and the blacklist on the film industry and occasional digressions into examples of films created with a domestic propaganda edge. That time has now passed. Scholars look on culture as a major front in the Cold War of “soft power” and Hollywood as the most significant strategic asset on that front. Tony Shaw's masterful and highly readable study of Hollywood's role in the Cold War presents the first truly comprehensive synthesis of the subject, pushing his analysis up to collapse of the USSR and back to the Russian Revolution of 1917. It is well paced, insightful, jargon-free, and a perfect text to use as the spine for a course looking at film as a form of historical evidence. His cases range from the familiar to the obscure and include epics, documentaries, musicals, science fiction, and plenty of thrillers. Shaw casts all in a fresh light. Even the most jaded film specialist will find inspiration to visit their local Blockbuster or scour Netflix to view or review with fresh interest at least one or two of the films presented here.
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