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Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist : Reading the Hollywood Reds

Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist examines the long-term reception of several key American films released during the postwar period, focusing on the two main critical lenses used in the interpretation of these films: propaganda and allegory. Produced in response to the hearings held by...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Jeff, 1962 December 17-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; FILM CRITICISM, THE COLD WAR, AND THE BLACKLIST; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: What More Can Be Said about the Hollywood Blacklist?; 1. A Bifocal View of Hollywood during the Blacklist Period: Film as Propaganda and Allegory; 2. I Was a Communist for RKO: Hollywood Anti-Communism and the Problem of Representing Political Beliefs; 3. Reds and Blacks: Representing Race in Anti-Communist Films; 4. Stoolies, Cheese-Eaters, and Tie Sellers: Genre, Allegory, and the HUAC Informer.
  • 5. The Cross and the Sickle: Allegorical Representations of the Blacklist in Historical Films6. Roaming the Plains along the "New Frontier": The Western as Allegory of the Blacklist and the Cold War; 7. Loving the Alien: Science Fiction Cinema as Cold War Allegory; Conclusion: Old Wounds and the Texas Sharpshooter; Notes; Bibliography; Index.