Film criticism, the Cold War, and the blacklist [electronic resource] : reading the Hollywood Reds / Jeff Smith.

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.

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