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A very dangerous citizen : Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood left
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buhle, Paul, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Polonsky, Abraham.
- Blacklisting of authors--20th century--United States--Biography.
- Blacklisting of authors.
- Authors, American--United States--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Screenwriters.
- Politics in motion pictures.
- Motion picture authorship.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Biography.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 275 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, [Calif.] ; London : University of California Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Going beyond a biography, this text uses the life of blacklisted Hollywood writer and director Abraham Lincoln Polonsky to help us understand the relationship between art and politics in American culture and to uncover the effects of US anticommunism and anti-Semitism.
- Contents:
- Adventures of the Artist as Intellectual
- The Good War
- and After
- The Politics and Mythology of Film Art: Polonsky's Noir Era
- Polonsky's Fifties
- Triumph and Retrospect.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780520936928
- 0520936922
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb07997 hdl
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