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Hollywood riots : violent crowds and progressive politics in American film / Doug Dibbern.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.P6 D52 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dibbern, Doug, author.
- Series:
- Cinema and society
- Cinema and society series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Socialism and motion pictures--United States.
- Socialism and motion pictures.
- Politics in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects.
- History.
- Motion pictures--Political aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : I.B. Tauris, 2016.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Postwar Anxieties, Independent Aspirations: Political Filmmaking and the Economics of the Film Industry
- Chapter 1 Violent Crowds on American Screens: Reporters, Racism, and Riots 11
- Recurring Themes on American Screens 19
- 1 False Accusations 19
- 2 The Dissemination of the News: Newspapers and Rumourmongering 24
- 3 Minority Victims 26
- 4 Angry Crowds 29
- Chapter 2 Independent Filmmaking and the Disintegration of the Popular Front 32
- Postwar Filmmaking: Social Realism in Hollywood 32
- Postwar Independent Production 38
- Postwar Politics: The Death of the Popular Front and the Emergence of the Cold War Consensus 44
- Part 2 Incendiary Ideologies, Reactionary Crowds
- Chapter 3 The Politics of the News 53
- Metropolitan Dailies 55
- Cosmopolitan Monthlies and Weeklies 56
- The Los Angeles Press 58
- Chapter 4 Mob Violence in Los Angeles and the United States 65
- Part 1 Mob Violence in Southern California 65
- The Sleepy Lagoon Murder Trial and the Zoot Suit Riots 65
- Union Violence in Hollywood 71
- The HUAC Hearings of 1947 82
- Part 2 Mob Violence in America 84
- Conclusion: The Potentials of Race Riots 87
- Part 3 Creative Artists, Activist Historians
- Chapter 5 Nostalgia for the Popular Front in The Lawless 91
- Un-American Activities: Washington Investigates Hollywood 92
- The Filmmakers 94
- The Lawless and the Death of the Popular Front 102
- The Reception 110
- Chapter 6 Cy Endfield's Radical Despair: The Underworld Story and The Sound of Fury 112
- The Filmmakers 114
- The Underworld Story 117
- Lynching and the Civil Rights Movement 119
- From Novel to Screen 123
- Economic Determinism and The Sound of Fury 128
- Reception 132
- Chapter 7 Racial Harmony and The Well 134
- The Filmmakers 136
- Based on an Actual Story: The Kathy Fiscus Case 140
- Spreading the News: The Disintegration and Integration of Community 143
- Racial Violence and Miscegenation 147
- The Reception 151.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1780766327
- 9781780766324
- OCLC:
- 933263914
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