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

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014 ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (365 pages) 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 Summary 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 the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) that resulted in the Hollywood blacklist, these films' ideological message and rhetorical effectiveness was often muddled by the inherent difficulties in dramatizing villains defined by their thoughts and belief systems rather than their a Analysis 20th century american culture 20th century american history allegory american entertainment culture american films anti communist propaganda cold war communism critical lens entertainment blacklist film and television film criticism film history historical films hollywood blacklist hollywood house committee on un american activities huac literary allegory movie studies police procedures political politics postwar period propaganda films propaganda science fiction films villains westerns Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- United States Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century Cold War in motion pictures. Communism and motion pictures -- United States Blacklisting of entertainers -- United States -- History -- 20th century PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference. PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General. Blacklisting of entertainers Cold War (1945-1989) in motion pictures Communism and motion pictures Motion pictures Motion pictures -- Political aspects United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2013037614 ISBN 9780520958517 0520958519 1306565855 9781306565851 9780520280670 0520280679 9780520280687 0520280687

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