World War II and Hollywood

Before the beginning of World War II, Hollywood was aimed at entertaining American people. After the war began, the main focus was on wartime advertisement. This movie was used to show war in a way that does not show real color, such as censorship of casualties of casualties and other negative implications, simple facts. For a while Americans know more about actors than politicians. Through the movie, Hollywood began to describe their anti-Nazi creed.

While participating in the American World War II, the Hollywood movie industry cooperated closely with the government to support the information activities of the war target. Following the declaration of declaration of war with Japan, the government coordinated the production of entertainment programs, proposed a theme that enhances patriotism, motivation, "how to live in the USA", information on the nature of the enemy and civil liability of family members' ally, The fight army himself. Hollywood war movies were initially dragged in by the war (Hammen of Fritz Lang was also dead, the land of Jean Renoir is mine, Tay). The Hollywood wartime movie that won in 1942 is becoming increasingly serious. Bayer of Garnett in 1943, Tokyo of Del Mar Dave in 1944, lifeboat of Alfred Hitchcock, Purple Heart of Lewis Milestone of 1944, Milestone of 1946 Year)

During World War II, the majority of Hollywood did not portray the Holocaust, in addition to Charlie Chaplin's magnificent "Great Dictator" (1940). . However, for many years after the war, strong nationalism, testimony of the Holocaust, and the creation of Israel brought about a significant change in the attitude of American film director. 1946, showed "The Stranger" is the concentration camps lens of Orson Welles, "The Jolson Story" will not convey the "real" story of the assimilation of Jolson. In 1947, this movie project urged Hollywood to produce a movie depicting Jewish themes. In "body and soul", Mary Courier read a loan application: "Ethnicity: White, Religion: Jewish, Nationality: Americans".