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Fred Zinnemann directed some of the most acclaimed and controversial films of the twentieth century, yet he has been a shadowy presence in Hollywood history. InFred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance, J. E. Smyth reveals the intellectual passion behind some of the most powerful films ever made about the rise and resistance to fascism and the legacy of the Second World War, fromThe Seventh CrossandThe Search to High Noon, From Here to Eternity, andJulia. Smyth's book is the first to draw upon Zinnemann's extensive papers at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and brings Fred Zinnemann's vision, voice, and film practice to life. In his engagement with the defining historical struggles of the twentieth century, Zinnemann fought his own battles with the Hollywood studio system, the critics, and a public bent on forgetting. Zinnemann's films explore the role of women and communists in the antifascist resistance, the West's support of Franco after the Spanish Civil War, and the darker side of America's national heritage. Smyth reconstructs a complex and conflicted portrait of Zinnemann's cinema of resistance, examining his sketches, script annotations, editing and production notes, and personal letters. Illustrated with seventy black-and-white images from Smyth's collection,Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistancediscusses the director's professional and personal relationships with Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift, Audrey Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, and Gary Cooper; the critical reaction to his revisionist Western,High Noon; his battles over the censorship ofFrom Here to Eternity, The Nun's Story, andBehold a Pale Horse; his unrealized history of the communist Revolution in China,Man's Fate; and the controversial study of political assassination,The Day of the Jackal. In this intense, richly textured narrative, Smyth enters the mind of one of Hollywood's master directors, redefining our knowledge of his artistic vision and practice.

The Search, Fred Zinnemann's 1948 film about displaced and orphaned children, has long sat on the periphery of Holocaust film. Although it has an important Jewish character—a boy who survived the war by hiding his identity—the heart of the film centers on a non-Jewish child. However, the film's explicitly Jewish material is only the most visible aspect of its interest in Jewish children and the Holocaust. To a large extent, the film's efforts to address the Holocaust are submerged—or, more accurately, became submerged over the course of its production. Drawing on a rich body of sources, this essay revisits The Search's treatment of the Holocaust, examining how the film openly addresses the murder of European Jewry and how it elides and suppresses this history.

In the years immediately following World War II, American filmmakers contemplating foreign locations encountered massive logistical problems and ideological resistance from studio bosses. Fred Zinnemann was the first major filmmaker to be invited by UNRRA (The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) and the US military to interview child survivors of the Holocaust held in camps in occupied Germany in 1946-47. Together with David and Lazar Wechsler and screenwriter Richard Schweizer, he created The Search, a film that defined the limits of historicizing the Holocaust and \"voicing\" the past in an international context. This article, based on previously unexamined documents in Zinnemann's archive, reconstructs the production, research, and adaptation of The Search, and reveals the core of Zinnemann's lifelong commitment to documenting the war and its legacy. More than any other Hollywood-European collaboration, The Search represented the complexities of an international film vision in the postwar era.

This article considers the representation of gendered disability in The Men (Fred Zinnemann, 1950), Marlon Brando’s first film. A groundbreaking yet deeply ambiguous text, the film explores notions of normative and non-normative physicality through the lens of masculinity, sexuality, and their implications for human status. In the light of key works by disability scholars and of Judith Butler’s discussion of the cultural construction of the body, this article examines the multiple and subversive meanings made available by the film, and the extent to which The Men allows for a different bodily identity based on dissent.

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When it comes to director Fred Zinnemann’s two films starring Montgomery Clift – 1948’s The Search and 1953’s From Here to Eternity – there is certainly much more going on at the level of intriguing subtext than typically meets the (heterosexual) eye. In the years following the end of the Second World War, fears surfaced regularly in US society about whether soldiers returning home would successfully be able to fit back into the hegemonic expectation of being heterosexual family men, given that research findings revealed many of them had participated in homosexual acts with some regularity during their years of overseas military service. Such concerns are indeed raised at the level of subtext quite efficiently in The Search, through the living arrangements and emotionally charged interactions of Clift’s character and one of his fellow military officers, and a bit more blatantly and elaborately in From Here to Eternity, which to the careful viewer reveals itself to be a bisexual love story involving two military men. Accordingly, this article provides in-depth subtextual analyses of the bisexual undertones evident in both films, which were necessary in an era when Production Code Administration restrictions prohibited explicit references to non-heterosexuality in all US cinematic offerings.

The author examines the history of Fred Zinnemann's The Search, illustrating some of the profitable contributions that production histories can offer to notions of authorship, industry, and meaning-making practices. Specifically, by rediscovering Peter Viertel's role in the production of The Search, the author recovers an important part of The Search's past and, in the process, demonstrates that the film served as a site of ideological contestation on the nature of postwar Germany.

Zinnemann, whose own family perished in the Holocaust, was acclaimed by the United Nations for his semi-documentary styled social realist film, The Search (1948), shot on location overseas. [...]Frank is so ashamed that when Joe tries to kill him, Frank refuses to call the police. Biographical Note Dr. Sheri Chinen Biesen is Professor of Film History at Rowan University and author of Blackout: World War II and the Origins of Film Noir (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005), Music in the Shadows: Noir Musical Films (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), and Film Censorship: Regulating America’s Screen (Wallflower/Columbia University Press, 2018). Gangster Collection, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Film Noir: The Encyclopedia, Gangster Film Reader, Film Noir Reader 4, The Historian, Television and Television History, Popular Culture Review, served as Secretary of the Literature/Film Association, Founding Chair of the ‘Stars & Screen’ Film & Media History Conference, serves on the editorial board of Film Criticism, and edited The Velvet Light Trap.

Fred Zinnemann’s The Search (1948) comprises intersecting plots and displaced persons presented within the illusion of documentary film. Its narrative develops on three levels: the documentary with a voice-over, the historic providing both contemporary context and flashbacks, and the individual showing us a boy and mother’s search for each other while he finds temporary refuge with an American soldier. The film dramatizes post-war European recovery; Zinnemann’s approach combines documentary and melodramatic techniques. The Search becomes a portrait of post-war Europe and an emotionally wrenching tale of family loss and reunification. The film’s presentation of displaced persons rediscovering their identities is not mere melodrama, nor are its characters but figures in a pseudo-documentary. Zinnemann is subjective but self-consciously so. The film is both historical documentation of cultural displacement in post-war Europe and a document of displacement of conventional Hollywood filming methods by documentary-style cinema technique.