Research Catalog

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Description

1. xiii, 349 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

1. Blacklisting of entertainers > United States > History > 20th century
2. Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century
3. Motion pictures > Political aspects > United States
4. Cold War in motion pictures
5. Communism and motion pictures > United States

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. MFL 14-4550

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-328) and index.

Author

1. Smith, Jeff, 1962 December 17- author.

Title

1. Film criticism, the Cold War, and the blacklist : reading the Hollywood Reds / Jeff Smith.

Publisher

1. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-328) and index.

LCCN

1. 2013037614

ISBN

1. 9780520280670 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0520280679 (cloth : alk. paper)
3. 9780520280687 (pbk. : alk. paper)
4. 0520280687 (pbk. : alk. paper)
5. 9780520958517 (e-book)

Research call number

1. MFL 14-4550