"Un-American" Hollywood : politics and film in the blacklist era / edited by Frank Krutnik ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krutnik, Frank, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Political aspects.

United States.

Blacklisting of entertainers--United States.

Blacklisting of entertainers.

Physical Description:

vi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2007]

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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780813541976

0813541972

9780813541983

0813541980

OCLC:

83758834