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Film criticism, the Cold War, and the blacklist
2014
Overview
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 actions. Whereas anti-Communist propaganda films offered explicit political exhortation, allegory was the preferred vehicle for veiled or hidden political comment in many police procedurals, historical films, Westerns, and science fiction films. Jeff Smith examines the way that particular heuristics, such as the mental availability of exemplars and the effects of framing, have encouraged critics to match filmic elements to contemporaneous historical events, persons, and policies. In charting the development of these particular readings, Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist features case studies of many canonical Cold War titles, including The Red Menace, On the Waterfront, The Robe, High Noon, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Publisher
University of California Press
Subject
/ 20th century american culture
/ 20th century american history
/ allegory
/ american entertainment culture
/ Blacklisting of entertainers
/ Blacklisting of entertainers -- United States -- History -- 20th century
/ cold war
/ Communism and motion pictures
/ Communism and motion pictures -- United States
/ History
/ house committee on un american activities
/ huac
/ Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- United States
/ Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century
/ PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General
/ politics
/ villains
/ westerns
ISBN
9780520280670, 9780520280687, 0520280687, 0520280679
