"Un-American"
Hollywood
Price: $27.95
Subtitle: Politics
and Film in the Blacklist Era
Edited by: Frank
Krutnik, Steve Neale, Brian Neve, and
Peter Stanfield
Subject: Film
/ American
Studies
Paper ISBN 978-0-8135-4198-3
Cloth ISBN
978-0-8135-4197-6
Pages: 416 pages, 34 b&w
illustrations
Publication Date: December 2007
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Praise for "Un-American" Hollywood
“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
Description:
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.
About the Authors:
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.
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