'Un-American' Hollywood

Informationen zum Autor Stanfield, Peter Klappentext Discusses the debate on the blacklist era and on aesthetic and political work of the Hollywood Left. Featuring case studies focusing on contexts of production and reception! this book offers perspectives on the role of progressive politics within a capitalist media industry. It includes essays which scrutinize the work of individual practitioners. Zusammenfassung Discusses the debate on the blacklist era and on aesthetic and political work of the Hollywood Left. Featuring case studies focusing on contexts of production and reception! this book offers perspectives on the role of progressive politics within a capitalist media industry. It includes essays which scrutinize the work of individual practitioners. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...

Autorentext

Frank Krutnik teaches film at Sussex University. Steve Neale is a professor of film studies at Exeter University. Brian Neve is a senior lecturer in politics at the University of Bath. Peter Stanfield is a reader in film studies at the University of Kent.

Klappentext

Discusses the debate on the blacklist era and on aesthetic and political work of the Hollywood Left. Featuring case studies focusing on contexts of production and reception, this book offers perspectives on the role of progressive politics within a capitalist media industry. It includes essays which scrutinize the work of individual practitioners.

Inhalt

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