All the Way to the FBI
Tracing the Hollywood career of J. Edgar Hoover
by Thomas Doherty
posted Nov 16, 2011
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biopic | J. Edgar Hoover | Hollywood | sexuality | Cold War | The Great Depression | gangster film | FBITHE AUTHOR
Thomas Doherty is professor of American Studies at Brandeis University and the author of Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration (Columbia University Press, 2007).
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It's been a long time since I've seen the Larry Cohen film, but I'm having trouble squaring this article's treatment of it with the following text by Cohen about Hoover: http://www.davekehr.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/HOOVER.pdf
J. Rosenbaum posted 17.11.11