Screen Guide for Americans

De: Ayn Rand, Michael Berliner

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

In the aftermath of Nazi Germany’s defeat in World War II, collectivism was still very much alive. Soviet Russia, America’s wartime “ally,” was now its greatest enemy—but one that was more intellectual than military. This screen guide, now available for the first time as a book, was written and produced in 1947 as a warning about this ally and its subtle ways using films to undermine America and the individualism it represented.

This first archival edition of “Screen Guide” is supplemented by an 11-page afterword, providing important historical background from Ayn Rand’s life and career, along with 20 pages of reproductions of rare material from the Ayn Rand Archives, including pages from her 1920s movie diary, some film reviews, and her “Suggestions re: the Congressional Investigation of Communism.”

The 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, she said in 1961, “was the turning point for Red propaganda on the screen. . . . [When Communist propaganda later re-surfaced] it was too feeble to do any harm to the general public. And there I take credit, for the ‘Screen Guide for Americans’ did it.”