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Tony Shaw

Bio: Tony Shaw is an academic researcher from University of Hertfordshire. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hollywood & Battle. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 44 publications receiving 504 citations. Previous affiliations of Tony Shaw include Lancaster University & University of Oxford.

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19 Sep 2007
TL;DR: Shaw as discussed by the authors examines the complex relationship between filmmakers, censors, politicians, and government propagandists during the Cold War and concludes that movies played a critical dual role: teaching millions of Americans why communism represented the greatest threat their country had ever faced, and selling America's liberal-capitalist ideas around the globe.
Abstract: At a moment when American film reflects a deepening preoccupation with the Bush administration's War on Terror, this authoritative and timely book offers the first comprehensive account of Hollywood's propaganda role during the defining ideological conflict of the twentieth century: the Cold War. In an analysis of films dating from America's first Red Scare in the wake of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution to the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Tony Shaw examines the complex relationship between filmmakers, censors, politicians, and government propagandists. Movies, Shaw demonstrates, were at the center of the Cold War's battle for hearts and minds. Hollywood's comedies, love stories, musicals, thrillers, documentaries, and science fiction shockers played a critical dual role: on the one hand teaching millions of Americans why communism represented the greatest threat their country had ever faced, and on the other selling America's liberal-capitalist ideas around the globe. Drawing on declassified government documents, studio archives, and filmmakers' private papers, Shaw reveals the different ways in which cinematic propaganda was produced, disseminated, and received by audiences during the Cold War. In the process, he addresses subjects as diverse as women's fashions, McCarthyism, drug smuggling, Christianity, and American cultural diplomacy in India. Anyone seeking to understand wartime propaganda today will find striking contemporary resonance in his conclusions about Hollywood's versatility and power.

56 citations

Book
21 Sep 2010
TL;DR: Shaw and Youngblood as discussed by the authors, "Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for hearts and minds" (Lawrence: University Press Kansas, 2010), ISBN 10: 0700617434, ISBN 13: 978-0700617432
Abstract: Tony Shaw and Denise J Youngblood, Cinematic Cold War: The American and Soviet Struggle for hearts and minds (Lawrence: University Press Kansas, 2010), ISBN-10: 0700617434, ISBN-13: 978-0700617432

53 citations

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TL;DR: The authors examines the relationship between politics and culture in Great Britain and the United States during the Cold War, with particular emphasis on the period from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.
Abstract: This article examines the relationship between politics and culture in Great Britain and the United States during the Cold War, with particular emphasis on the period from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. The article critically examines several recent books on British and American Cold War cultural activities, both domestic and external. The review covers theatrical, cinematic, literary, and broadcast propaganda and analyzes the complex network of links between governments and private groups in commerce, education, labor markets, and the mass entertainment media. It points out the fundamental differences between Western countries and the Soviet bloc and provides a warning to those inclined to view Western culture solely through a Cold War prism.

44 citations

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01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: Shaw as discussed by the authors explores the relationship between film makers, censors and Whitehall, within the context of the film industry's economic imperatives and the British government's anti-Soviet and anti-Communist propaganda strategies.
Abstract: Cinema was one of the Cold War's most powerful instruments of propaganda. Movies blended with literary, theatrical, musical and broadcast representations of the conflict to produce a richly textured Cold War culture. Now in paperback, this timely book fills a significant gap in the international story by uncovering British cinema's contribution to Cold War propaganda and to the development of a popular consensus on Cold War issues. Tony Shaw focuses on an age in which the 'first Cold War' dictated international (and to some extent domestic) politics. This era also marked the last phase of cinema's dominance as a mass entertainment form in Britain. Shaw explores the relationship between film-makers, censors and Whitehall, within the context of the film industry's economic imperatives and the British government's anti-Soviet and anti-Communist propaganda strategies. Drawing upon rich documentation, he demonstrates the degree of control exerted by the state over film output. Shaw analyses key films of the period, including High Treason, which put a British McCarthyism on celluloid; the fascinatingly ambiguous science fiction thriller The Quatermass Experiment; the dystopic The Damned, made by one of Hollywood's blacklisted directors, Joseph Losey; and the CIA-funded, animated version of George Orwell's novel "Animal Farm". The result is a deeply probing study of how Cold War issues were refracted through British films, compared with their imported American and East European counterparts, and how the British public received this 'war propaganda'.

44 citations

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TL;DR: Cull et al. as mentioned in this paper described the United States Information Agency (USIA) as "the world's largest information gathering agency" and "the most powerful information gathering organization in the world".
Abstract: Nicholas J. Cull, Cambridge, MA, Cambridge University Press, 2008, xxi +533 pp Created in 1953 by Dwight Eisenhower, the United States Information Agency (USIA, or USIS as it was known overseas) wa...

44 citations


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TL;DR: Nadel as discussed by the authors provides a unique analysis of the rise of American postmodernism by viewing it as a breakdown in Cold War cultural narratives of containment, which embodied an American postwar foreign policy charged with checking the spread of Communism, also operated within a wide spectrum of cultural life in the United States to contain atomic secrets, sexual license, gender roles, nuclear energy and artistic expression.
Abstract: Alan Nadel provides a unique analysis of the rise of American postmodernism by viewing it as a breakdown in Cold War cultural narratives of containment. These narratives, which embodied an American postwar foreign policy charged with checking the spread of Communism, also operated, Nadel argues, within a wide spectrum of cultural life in the United States to contain atomic secrets, sexual license, gender roles, nuclear energy, and artistic expression. Because these narratives were deployed in films, books, and magazines at a time when American culture was for the first time able to dominate global entertainment and capitalize on global production, containment became one of the most widely disseminated and highly privileged national narratives in history.Examining a broad sweep of American culture, from the work of George Kennan to \"Playboy Magazine,\" from the movies of Doris Day and Walt Disney to those of Cecil B. DeMille and Alfred Hitchcock, from James Bond to Holden Caulfield, Nadel discloses the remarkable pervasiveness of the containment narrative. Drawing subtly on insights provided by contemporary theorists, including Baudrillard, Foucault, Jameson, Sedgwick, Certeau, and Hayden White, he situates the rhetoric of the Cold War within a gendered narrative powered by the unspoken potency of the atom. He then traces the breakdown of this discourse of containment through such events as the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, and ties its collapse to the onset of American postmodernism, typified by works such as \"Catch-22\" and \"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence.\"An important work of cultural criticism, \"Containment Culture \"links atomic power with postmodernism and postwar politics, and shows how a multifarious national policy can become part of a nation's cultural agenda and a source of meaning for its citizenry.

188 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the state of the art in computer vision and artificial intelligence in London, and the place of publication is London and the date 2005 unless otherwise stated.
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164 citations

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TL;DR: Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945-1961 as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the history of propaganda, culture and the cold war.
Abstract: (1997). Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945–1961. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 5-5.

151 citations

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28 Apr 2015-Politics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the use of conspiracy theories by the Russian international television channel Russia Today (RT) and argued that the conspiratorial component of RT's broadcasting appears as a political instrument in the context of the post-Cold War world and is applied to attract various global audiences with different political views.
Abstract: This article explores the use of conspiracy theories by the Russian international television channel Russia Today (RT). Based on Mark Fenster's definition of conspiracy theory as a populist theory of power, the article studies the process of how various conspiratorial notions in programmes broadcast by RT legitimise Russian domestic and foreign policies and, in turn, delegitimise policies of the American government. It argues that the conspiratorial component of RT's broadcasting appears as a political instrument in the context of the post-Cold War world and is applied to attract various global audiences with different political views.

150 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an analytical framework that allows a systematic quantitative examination of the contrasting predictions of the Policy Sector Approach (PSA) and the National Patterns Approach (NPA).
Abstract: . This article sheds some light on the interaction between politics and learning in the diffusion of liberalisation. It does so by specifying the conditions and ways in which politics and learning interact and thus sustain cross-national and cross-sectoral variations in the spread of liberalisation. The process of liberalisation is analysed against data from 32 European and Latin American countries and two sectors. The indicators employed cover the issue of privatisation as well as regulatory reform. An analytical framework is presented that, for the first time, allows a systematic quantitative examination of the contrasting predictions of the Policy Sector Approach (PSA) and the National Patterns Approach (NPA). Four different combinations of variations and similarities across sectors and nations are identified and explained. These explanations are grounded in actor-centred historical institutionalism. The empirical evidence points to the failure of Latin America to become ‘European’ despite the appearance of sweeping and comprehensive liberalisation. In addition, the article demonstrates how rational actors act in different institutional environments while accommodating the process of learning to their advantage, and how their actions are constrained by different historical legacies of state formation and varied levels of risks and rewards inherent in different sectors.

141 citations