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Schaafsma, Rein (2017)

The Developing Enemy Image of the Soviet Union in the United States: Analysing Anticommunism in Hollywood

Bachelor thesis | International Studies (BA)

This Thesis´ analysis includes both private actors such as society groups and actors related to the US state, and it identifies how the interplay of these actors and their different interests contributed to the rise of anticommunism in the Hollywood film industry. In doing so, this thesis explores how a combination of actors and factors contributed to the intensification of anticommunism in Hollywood after the Second World War. As a result, it argues that anticommunism in Hollywood did not originate from solely state or private actors with consistent interests, it emerged from an interplay of state and private actors with different interests and ideas.

Anticommunism

Hollywood

Enemy Image

United States

Soviet Union

Film Industry

Author

Schaafsma, Rein

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

International Studies: North America

Supervisors

Bloemendal, Albertine

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en