Film History (2002) - Early Warnings of the Red Peril: A Pre-History of Cold War British Cinema, 1917-1939

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• article: Early Warnings of the Red Peril: A Pre-History of Cold War British Cinema, 1917-1939
• author(s): Tony Shaw
• journal: Film History (01/Jan/2002)
• issue: volume 14, issue 3/4, pages 354-368
• DOI: 10.2979/FIL.2002.14.3-4.354
• journal ISSN: 0892-2160
• publisher: Indiana University Press
• keywords: Armed forces, Cold War, History, Motion pictures

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Abstract

  Shaw cites the politico-industrial context of filmmaking in Britain between 1917 and 1939 with emphasis on the strong inter-relationship that existed between film artists, the censors, and government. The author also discusses the role-played in films by the British armed forces and the intelligence services, both on and behind the screen, to examine the links between militarism and anti-communism during the formative stage of the East-West cultural Cold War.