Table of Contents

Are you now or have you ever been a Christian? the strange history of The robe as political allegory / Jeff Smith
Un-American : Dmytryk, Rossellini, and Christ in concrete / Erica Sheen
"A living part of the class struggle" : Diego Rivera's The flower carrier and the Hollywood left / Frank Krutnik
A monarch for the millions : Jewish filmmakers, social commentary, and the postwar cycle of boxing films / Peter Stanfield
The violent poetry of the times : the politics of history in Daniel Mainwaring and Joseph Losey's The lawless / Doug Dibbern
Dark passages : jazz and civil liberty in the postwar crime film / Sean McCann
Documentary realism and the postwar left / Will Straw
Cloaked in compromise : Jules Dassin's "naked" city / Rebecca Prime
The progressive producer in the studio system : Adrian Scott at RKO, 1943-1947 / Jennifer Langdon-Teclaw
The house I live in : Albert Maltz and the fight against anti-Semitism / Art Simon
Red Hollywood in transition : the case of Robert Rossen / Brian Neve
Swashbuckling, sapphire, and salt : un-American contributions to TV costume adventure series in the 1950s / Steve Neale
Hollywood, the new left, and FTA / Mark Shiel
Red Hollywood / Thom Anderson

About the Author

Frank Krutnik teaches film at Sussex University. Steve Neale is a professor of film studies at Exeter University. Brian Neve is a senior lecturer in politics at the University of Bath. Peter Stanfield is a reader in film studies at the University of Kent.

Reviews

This is a first rate anthology giving us a fresh perspective on Hollywood and television during the blacklist era and its legacy during the Vietnam years. Reading this book from cover to cover is a valuable experience not just of discovery and knowing, but of remembering.— Film Quarterly
This collection of essays represents the work of a new generation of historians who have made discoveries in the study of films from the Blacklist era which demand our attention.— John Belton, author of American Cinema/American Culture