Caught in the crossfire / by Jennifer E. Langdon.
- Langdon, Jennifer E
- Date:
- 2010, ©2008
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- Online
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Publication/Creation
New York : Columbia University Press, 2010, ©2008.
Physical description
1 online resource : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits.
Edition
ACLS Humanities E-Book electronic edition.
Notes
Caption title; description based on screen of 2010-09-04.
Originally published by Gutenberg-e: www.gutenberg-e.org.
Contents
Reel reds, real Americans: politics and culture in the studio system -- Raising the cry of alarm: popular nationalism, World War Two, and the new political filmmaking -- Progressive producer in the studio system: film noir and the production of Murder, my sweet -- They must not escape: cornered and the specter of postwar fascism -- You can't do that: from The brick foxhole to Crossfire -- It can happen here: noir style and the politics of antifascism in Crossfire -- Is it good for the Jews? The Jewish response to Crossfire -- Hate is like a loaded gun: shaping the public response to Crossfire -- Americanism on trial: HUAC, the Hollywood ten, and the politics of anti-communism -- The triumph of anti-communist Americanism: the blacklist and beyond.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references.
Funding information
This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.