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

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Christian? The Strange History of The Robe as Political Allegory -- 2. Un-American: Dmytryk, Rossellini, and Christ in Concrete -- 3. “A Living Part of the Class Struggle”: Diego Rivera’s The Flower Carrier and the Hol...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Christian? The Strange History of The Robe as Political Allegory -- 2. Un-American: Dmytryk, Rossellini, and Christ in Concrete -- 3. “A Living Part of the Class Struggle”: Diego Rivera’s The Flower Carrier and the Hollywood Left -- 4. A Monarch for the Millions: Jewish Filmmakers, Social Commentary, and the Postwar Cycle of Boxing Films -- 5. The Violent Poetry of the Times: The Politics of History in Daniel Mainwaring and Joseph Losey’s The Lawless -- 6. Dark Passages: Jazz and Civil Liberty in the Postwar Crime Film -- 7. Documentary Realism and the Postwar Left -- 8. Cloaked in Compromise: Jules Dassin’s “Naked” City -- 9. The Progressive Producer in the Studio System: Adrian Scott at RKO, 1943–1947 -- 10. The House I Live In: Albert Maltz and the Fight against Anti-Semitism -- 11. Red Hollywood in Transition: The Case of Robert Rossen -- 12. Swashbuckling, Sapphire, and Salt: Un-American Contributions to TV Costume Adventure Series in the 1950s -- 13. Hollywood, the New Left, and FTA -- 14. Red Hollywood -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung