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. Ed(S): Krutnik, Frank; Neale, Steve; Neve, Brian; Stanfield, Peter - 'Un-American' Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era - 9780813541983 - V9780813541983
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'Un-American' Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era

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Description for 'Un-American' Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era paperback. 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. Editor(s): Krutnik, Frank; Neale, Steve; Neve, Brian; Stanfield, Peter. Num Pages: 416 pages, 34 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 340 x 234 x 23. Weight in Grams: 568.

The 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.

            "Un-American" Hollywood  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.

            Original essays scrutinize the work of individual practitioners, such as Robert Rossen, Joseph Losey, Jules Dassin, and Edward Dmytryk, and examine key films, including The Robe, Christ in Concrete, The House I Live In, The Lawless, The Naked City, The Prowler, Body and Soul, and FTA.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813541983
SKU
V9780813541983
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About . Ed(S): Krutnik, Frank; Neale, Steve; Neve, Brian; Stanfield, Peter
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.

Reviews for 'Un-American' Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era
This 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 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

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