Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934.He is a recipient of the Edwin Smith Family Distingusihed Speaker Award from the Westfield Athenaeum (2010). Thomas Doherty, a renowned scholar on American culture and film history, is a senior Fulbright scholar who has lectured in New Zealand, South Korea, Albania and the Netherlands. He is also an actor, known for The Breaking Point (2013), Insanity (2011) and American Masters (1985). His most recent and highly acclaimed book is "Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist". Thomas Doherty's books explore American cinematic history within the greater context of American culture. Doherty is also an associate editor for the film magazine Cineaste and film review editor for the Journal of American History. His usual day job is as a professor of American Studies at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, known as the Watch City because of its famous timepiece factory. Thomas Doherty is a cultural historian with a special interest in Hollywood cinema. He explains the social, political and economic forces that created genre classics such as "Mrs Miniver" and "Air Force" as well as comedies, musicals, newsreels, documentaries, cartoons and army training films. Doherty proves that war-time Hollywood was not a rigidly controlled propaganda machine, as is often assumed, but an ad-hoc collaborative effort between the government and the film industry. He reveals how and why Hollywood marshalled its artistic resources on behalf of the war effort, giving a voice to many different groups' viewpoints: the motion picture industry itself government agencies and audiences at home and overseas. In this cultural history of the USA during World War II, Thomas Doherty examines the interaction between Hollywood cinema and America's involvement in the war. (In this cultural history of the USA during World War II. Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture and World War II
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