{"product_id":"unamerican-hollywood-politics-and-film-in-the-blacklist-era-9780813541983","title":"UnAmerican Hollywood Politics and Film in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe concept of “un-Americanism,” so vital to the HUAC crusade of the 1940s and 1950s, was resoundingly revived in the emotional rhetoric that followed the September 11th terrorist attacks. Today’s political and cultural climate makes it more crucial than ever to come to terms with the consequences of this earlier period of repression and with the contested claims of Americanism that it generated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e “Un-American” Hollywood\u003c\/i\u003e reopens the intense critical debate on the blacklist era and on the aesthetic and political work of the Hollywood Left. In a series of fresh case studies focusing on contexts of production and reception, the contributors offer exciting and original perspectives on the role of progressive politics within a capitalist media industry. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Original essays scrutinize the work of individual practitioners, such as Robert Rossen, Joseph Losey, Jules Dassin, and Edward Dmytryk, and examine key films, including \u003ci\u003eThe R\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a first rate anthology giving us a fresh perspective on Hollywood and television during the blacklist era and its legacy during the Vietnam years. Reading this book from cover to cover is a valuable experience not just of discovery and knowing, but of remembering.— Film Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e This collection of essays represents the work of a new generation of historians who have made discoveries in the study of films from the Blacklist era which demand our attention.— John Belton, author of American Cinema\/American Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAre you now or have you ever been a Christian? the strange history of The robe as political allegory \/ Jeff Smith\u003cbr\u003e Un-American : Dmytryk, Rossellini, and Christ in concrete \/ Erica Sheen\u003cbr\u003e \"A living part of the class struggle\" : Diego Rivera's The flower carrier and the Hollywood left \/ Frank Krutnik\u003cbr\u003e A monarch for the millions : Jewish filmmakers, social commentary, and the postwar cycle of boxing films \/ Peter Stanfield\u003cbr\u003e The violent poetry of the times : the politics of history in Daniel Mainwaring and Joseph Losey's The lawless \/ Doug Dibbern\u003cbr\u003e Dark passages : jazz and civil liberty in the postwar crime film \/ Sean McCann\u003cbr\u003e Documentary realism and the postwar left \/ Will Straw\u003cbr\u003e Cloaked in compromise : Jules Dassin's \"naked\" city \/ Rebecca Prime\u003cbr\u003e The progressive producer in the studio system : Adrian Scott at RKO, 1943-1947 \/ Jennifer Langdon-Teclaw\u003cbr\u003e The house I live in : Albert Maltz and the fight against anti-Semitism \/ Art Simon\u003cbr\u003e Red Hollywood in transition : the case of Robert Rossen \/ Brian Neve\u003cbr\u003e Swashbuckling, sapphire, and salt : un-American contributions to TV costume adventure series in the 1950s \/ Steve Neale\u003cbr\u003e Hollywood, the new left, and FTA \/ Mark Shiel\u003cbr\u003e Red Hollywood \/ Thom Anderson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038413685079,"sku":"9780813541983","price":29.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813541983.jpg?v=1750940261","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/unamerican-hollywood-politics-and-film-in-the-blacklist-era-9780813541983","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}