Timothy Birdnow

My brother Brian will soon have a new book out, The Subversive Screen, about the hidden Communists in Hollywood during the Golden Age of screen. Praeger U. is making the offering.
See here.

They describe the book:

"A riveting chronicle of Communist Party efforts to propagate Communism in the United States, concurrent with Hollywood's "Golden Age" of creativity that came to define classical Hollywood cinema.

From the Great Depression through World War II, the American Communist Party tried to take control of the motion picture industry. This comprehensive and chronological account of Communist influence in Hollywood surveys the topic from the Popular Front's fight against Fascism during the 1930s to the height of the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings in the late 1940s.

Birdnow, an established historian and chronicler of domestic Communism, outlines Communist International's organizational efforts promoting international communism, focusing on the work of Communist political activists such as Willi Münzenberg, a media mogul with an international network; Gerhart Eisler, patron of a Hollywood composer; and Otto Katz, a high-profile publicist of the party line involved in movies in the 1930s and 1940s."

Emd excerpt.

Here is where you can order it:

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Hardcover

978-1-4408-4991-6

$46.00

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eBook

978-1-4408-4996-1

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International Pricing

Hardcover: £36.00/39,00€/A$59.00

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