Re: Shifting genres in media/"pop culture" and the shifting SSA of Monopoly Capitalism/Imperialism

[Michael Hoover <HooverM@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 3/26/2004 5:41:35 PM >>>
Maybe Michael Hoover or Yoshie can help us out, but I think that the
morality police
during the 30s pressured Hollywood not to show class conflict.
Michael Perelman
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excuse tardy reply, placed above in "to do" file...

decline of class conflict in hollywood films occurred prior to 30s,
hollywood experienced wave of strikes in late 1910s and early 1920s,
fewer films depicting class struggle were made and those that were
portrayed labor in increasingly hostile/
negative way...

j. edgar hoover had fbi agents monitor film companies, several small
companies were actually labor-class conscious
but they either were driven out of business by censorship
and repression or they modified their perspectives...

by 1930s, King Vidor could not get anyone to finance 'our daily bread'
(about rural coop socialism), chaplin did and this was used against him
later when he was called before huac
(he decided to leave u.s. rather than testify), vidor's (who later
became conservative) film won moscow's lenin film festival prize...
michael hoover