Un-American Hollywood

by Krutnik, Frank; Neale, Steve; Neve, Brian; Stanfield, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780813541976
• ISBN10: 0813541972
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-28
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

The book reopens the intense critical debate on the blacklist era and on the aesthetic and political work of the Hollywood Left.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 3
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Christian? The Strange History of The Robe as Political Allegory	p. 19
Un-American: Dmytryk, Rossellini, and Christ in Concrete	p. 39
"A Living Part of the Class Struggle": Diego Rivera's The Flower Carrier and the Hollywood Left	p. 51
A Monarch for the Millions: Jewish Filmmakers, Social Commentary, and the Postwar Cycle of Boxing Films	p. 79
The Violent Poetry of the Times: The Politics of History in Daniel Mainwaring and Joseph Losey's The Lawless	p. 97
Dark Passages: Jazz and Civil Liberty in the Postwar Crime Film	p. 113
Documentary Realism and the Postwar Left	p. 130
Cloaked in Compromise: Jules Dassin's "Naked" City	p. 142
The Progressive Producer in the Studio System: Adrian Scott at RKO, 1943-1947	p. 152
The House I Live In: Albert Maltz and the Fight against Anti-Semitism	p. 169
Red Hollywood in Transition: The Case of Robert Rossen	p. 184
Swashbuckling, Sapphire, and Salt: Un-American Contributions to TV Costume Adventure Series in the 1950s	p. 198
Hollywood, the New Left, and FTA	p. 210
Red Hollywood	p. 225
Afterword	p. 264
Acknowledgments	p. 277
Notes	p. 279
Notes on the Contributors	p. 337
Index	p. 339
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