Hollywood Exiles in Europe : The Blacklist and Cold War Film Culture / Rebecca Prime.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prime, Rebecca, Author.

Series:

New Directions in International Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War--Influence.

Cold War.

Blacklisting of authors--United States--History--20th century.

Blacklisting of authors.

Blacklisting of entertainers--United States--History--20th century.

Blacklisting of entertainers.

Motion picture industry--Political aspects--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Motion picture industry.

Motion picture industry--Political aspects--Europe--History--20th century.

Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--History--20th century.

Motion picture actors and actresses.

Expatriate motion picture producers and directors--Europe--History--20th century.

Expatriate motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rebecca Prime documents the untold story of the American directors, screenwriters, and actors who exiled themselves to Europe as a result of the Hollywood blacklist. During the 1950s and 1960s, these Hollywood émigrés directed, wrote, or starred in almost one hundred European productions, their contributions ranging from crime film masterpieces like Du rififi chez les hommes (1955, Jules Dassin, director) to international blockbusters like The Bridge on the RiverKwai (1957, Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, screenwriters) and acclaimed art films like The Servant (1963, Joseph Losey, director). At once a lively portrait of a lesser-known American "lost generation" and an examination of an important transitional moment in European cinema, the book offers a compelling argument for the significance of the blacklisted émigrés to our understanding of postwar American and European cinema and Cold War relations. Prime provides detailed accounts of the production and reception of their European films that clarify the ambivalence with which Hollywood was regarded within postwar European culture. Drawing upon extensive archival research, including previously classified material, Hollywood Exiles in Europe suggests the need to rethink our understanding of the Hollywood blacklist as a purely domestic phenomenon. By shedding new light on European cinema's changing relationship with Hollywood, the book illuminates the postwar shift from national to transnational cinema.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Radical Community in Hollywood

2. Life on the Blacklist: Production and Politics in Postwar Europe

3. The Blacklist and "Runaway" Production

4. The Blacklist, Exile, and the Transatlantic Noir

5. Cosmopolitan Visions, Cold War Fears

6. Blacklisted Directors, Art Cinema, and the Caprices of Film Criticism

7. The Legacy of the Blacklist

Conclusion

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

0-8135-6263-5

OCLC:

865334514