Bibliograph

"Un-American" Hollywood, politics and film in the blacklist era, edited by Frank Krutnik ... [et al.]

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Label

"Un-American" Hollywood, politics and film in the blacklist era, edited by Frank Krutnik ... [et al.]

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-336) and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

"Un-American" Hollywood

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

83758834

Responsibility statement

edited by Frank Krutnik ... [et al.]

Sub title

politics and film in the blacklist era

Summary

'Un-American Hollywood' debates the blacklist era and the aesthetic and political work of the Hollywood Left. Featuring case studies focusing on contexts of production and reception, it offers perspectives on the role of progressive politics within a capitalist media industry

Table Of Contents

Are you now or have you ever been a Christian? the strange history of The robe as political allegory / Jeff Smith -- Un-American : Dmytryk, Rossellini, and Christ in concrete / Erica Sheen -- "A living part of the class struggle" : Diego Rivera's The flower carrier and the Hollywood left / Frank Krutnik -- A monarch for the millions : Jewish filmmakers, social commentary, and the postwar cycle of boxing films / Peter Stanfield -- The violent poetry of the times : the politics of history in Daniel Mainwaring and Joseph Losey's The lawless / Doug Dibbern -- Dark passages : jazz and civil liberty in the postwar crime film / Sean McCann -- Documentary realism and the postwar left / Will Straw -- Cloaked in compromise : Jules Dassin's "naked" city / Rebecca Prime -- The progressive producer in the studio system : Adrian Scott at RKO, 1943-1947 / Jennifer Langdon-Teclaw -- The house I live in : Albert Maltz and the fight against anti-Semitism / Art Simon -- Red Hollywood in transition : the case of Robert Rossen / Brian Neve -- Swashbuckling, sapphire, and salt : un-American contributions to TV costume adventure series in the 1950s / Steve Neale -- Hollywood, the new left, and FTA / Mark Shiel -- Red Hollywood / Thom Anderson

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