Hollywood During The Cold War

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This paper will be discussing and examining the american movies of the Cold War and how watching those movies changed United States citizens point of view on their opposing country. It will show how the mass media can change the thinking of a person. This happens in two ways: it makes American citizens look negative at the Soviets but positive at their leaders. Countries like America used movies to give propaganda message and get support from their audience during the Cold War. This analysis will eventually prove that America used movies as a weapon to win the hearts of the people by changing their perspective. Such a change can lead to action. However, the results can be both positive and negative. The tension was so high because America had …show more content…

Films on the Cold War incorporates elements of film, as well as aspects of modern war such as social, diplomatic and political history. "It looks behind the scenes to determine which individuals, political organizations and government departments were involved in the filmmaking process.”(Leab,1) Cold War movies shows how the political economy was affected the content and distribution of Cold War by the American Cinema and also they didn’t focus on the complete Cold War, instead they focused on the certain main issue of the Cold War at the expense of others.This examines the relation between "Hollywood Cold War coverage and the US political establishment’s views on the conflict, and, ultimately, considers the influence Hollywood films had on the public’s perceptions of the Cold War in the United States and elsewhere.”(Leab,2) American movies has been in the war against communism for almost 3 decades before the Senator Joseph McCarthy’s. The release of the movies were carefully chosen from a wide range of some famous genres such as comedies, docudramas and much …show more content…

Rocky 4 is an American sports based film which was released in 1985. It was written and directed by Sylvester Stallone who also was the main character in the movie Rocky Balboa. The movie “Rocky” is about a former boxing champion Rocky Balboa , the pride of USA. The USSR and their strongest boxer enters the professional boxing for the first time with their top athlete Ivan Drago who want to take over the Former world champion Rocky Balboa. Instead of Rocky fighting with Drago his best friend Apollo Creed decides to fight for him instead he gets killed in the ring. Furious by the death of his best friend he challenges and fights drago in Russia to avenge the pride of his country and specially for his best friend Apollo Creed’s respect and pride. They both fight each other on christmas in Russia rocky trains with his coach in the snow normally starting everything from the basic like running in the snow, cutting woods like old days but ivan drago uses huge machines, technologies to train for the match. The fight between the two men in the movie is represented the 2 countries fight USA vs USSR. Ivan Drago is the hyperbole characterization of the russian power and Rocky is characterized as american pride in this

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