Author: Blake EdwardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture plays
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Operation Terror (#8626)
Author: Blake EdwardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Motion picture plays
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Operation Terror
Author: Gunnar MesselOperation Terror
Author: GordonsOperation Terror
Author: Mildred GORDON (and GORDON (Gordon))Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Operation Terror
Author: Mildred GordonOperation Terror
Author: GordonsOperation Terror - Scholar's Choice Edition
Author: Murray LeinsterPublisher: Scholar's Choice
ISBN: 9781298059147
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Operation Terror. Experiment in Terror
Author: GordonsOperation Terror. Experiment in Terror
Author: Mildred GORDON (and GORDON (Gordon))Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The FBI and the Movies
Author: Bob HerzbergPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476608598
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
On June 29, 1908, U.S. Attorney General Charles Bonaparte ordered the creation of a special force within the Department of Justice. Consisting of 28 agents and eight former Treasury Department investigators, it was designed to stop interstate crimes yet had no power to arrest perpetrators or carry firearms. Named the Bureau of Investigation, the agency was soon bogged down with its own inherent problems, becoming an object of corruption and contempt--until May 19, 1924. On that date, President Calvin Coolidge appointed J. Edgar Hoover to replace the corrupt director. Hard-working with a no-nonsense attitude, Hoover immediately set about reorganizing the bureau, setting a standard that he expected his agents to follow. Hoover, impressed by Hollywood's manner of maintaining an image and manipulating the media, began to use some of these tricks to clean up his agency's image. Thanks in part to his efforts, movies of the 1930s shifted from glorifying outlaws and gangsters to glorifying lawmakers--and who better to play that role than Hoover's new, improved FBI? From crime-busting heroes to enemies of free speech, this volume examines the evolution of Hollywood's portrait of the FBI over the last 75 years. The book looks in-depth at how Hollywood's creative rewriting of history enhanced the FBI's reputation and discusses the historical events that shaped the bureau off-screen, including the various figures who tell the real FBI story--the gangsters, the politicians, the journalists, the communists. The main body of the work examines the filmmakers, actors, technicians, writers and producers who were responsible for FBI films, following the FBI from the birth of a cultural icon in the 1930s, through the spy-busting war years and the threat of the Red Menace, and, finally, to death of Hoover and the scandals of the 1960s. Studio correspondence and once confidential FBI memos are also included.