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Films were an important part of home-front propaganda efforts in the US during WWII, & it is argued that the need for social unity & support for the war effort led to portrayals of a national identity characterized by class unity & ethnic pluralism. Hollywood (CA) is viewed as a civic sphere in which national myths & symbols were reshaped & contested. Filmmakers initially identified war mobilization with New Deal goals; however, wartime demands required the submersion of class conflict, & filmmakers produced a conversion narrative whereby characters saw that authority lay in patriotic goals. Americanism itself was redefined as critiques of the class & gender status quo were labeled un-American. In promoting these ideas, moviemakers advanced a conservative view of politics & society that, after war, became the preconditions for the communist scare, particularly in the film industry itself. 13 Figures. J. Ferrari