'Un-American' Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813541980 ISBN 13: 9780813541983

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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 this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813541980
• ISBN 13: 9780813541983
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Krutnik Professor Frank, Neale Professor Steve, Neve Professor Brian, Stanfield Professor Peter