Film criticism, the Cold War, and the blacklist
Smith, Jeff, 1962 December 17-
Film criticism, the Cold War, and the blacklist reading the Hollywood Reds / [electronic resource] : Jeff Smith. - Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780520958517
Blacklisting of entertainers--History--United States--20th century.
Communism and motion pictures--United States.
Cold War in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--History--United States--20th century.
Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.P6 / S65 2014
791.43/6582825
Film criticism, the Cold War, and the blacklist reading the Hollywood Reds / [electronic resource] : Jeff Smith. - Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780520958517
Blacklisting of entertainers--History--United States--20th century.
Communism and motion pictures--United States.
Cold War in motion pictures.
Motion pictures--History--United States--20th century.
Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.P6 / S65 2014
791.43/6582825