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Film criticism, the Cold War, and the blacklist : reading the Hollywood Reds
Title
Film criticism, the Cold War, and the blacklist : reading the Hollywood Reds / Jeff Smith.
ISBN
9780520280670 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520280679 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520280687 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520280687 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520958517 (e-book)
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
Physical Description
xiii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 03, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : What more can be said about the Hollywood blacklist?
A bifocal view of Hollywood during the blacklist: film as propaganda and allegory
I was a communist for RKO: Hollywood anti-communism and the problem of representing political beliefs
The Reds and the Blacks: representing race in anti-communist films
Stoolies, cheese-eaters, and ties salesmen: genre, allegory, and the HUAC informer
The cross and the sickle: allegorical representations of the blacklist in historical films
Making war and peace with the "red" man: the western as allegory of the blacklist and the cold war
Loving the alien: science fiction cinema as cold war allegory
Conclusion: old wounds and the Texas sharpshooter.
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