Dennis Praeger promotes Brian Birdnow's new book:

June 2018, 216, 61/8x91/4,
Hardcover
Print: 9781440849916
$60.00 / £47.00 / 50,00 € / A$77.00
Imprint: Praeger
Primary Subject: American
History/Conflict
Secondary Subject: Popular
Culture/Film
The Subversive Screen
Communist Influence in Hollywood’s Golden
Age
Brian E. Birdnow
1 VOLUME
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 UnAmerican
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
highprofile
publicist of the party line involved in movies in the 1930s and
1940s.
The book explores the covert ways in which Hollywood Communists and
Soviet sympathizers attempted to tailor movie scripts to suit the Soviet
agenda and discusses Communist front groups such as the Hollywood AntiNazi
League in great detail. Final chapters offer convincing proof that the
directors, producers, and screenwriters blacklisted by studios for their
possible Communist affiliations, known as the Hollywood Ten, were
members of the Communist Party.
FEATURES
Gives readers insight into how the Communist Party used the creative
explosion in the movie industry to actively establish a foothold in the United
States
Draws a parallel between the rise of the Community Party and the rise of the motion picture industry in the United
States
Profiles Communist Party USA leaders close to Hollywood
Takes a closer look at the "Hollywood Ten,” detailing who each of the blacklisted individuals were and how their names
came to be on the list
Brian E. Birdnow, PhD, is adjunct professor of history at Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO. He has authored
The St. Louis Five: Communism, AntiCommunism,
and the Federal Courts in Missouri, 1852–1958 and Gerald R.
Ford: The AllAmerican
President.
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