ISBN:
9780813562636
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0813562635
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
New directions in international studies
Series Statement:
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
DDC:
302.2/34309409045
Keywords:
Cold War Influence
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Blacklisting of authors History 20th century
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Blacklisting of entertainers History 20th century
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Motion picture industry Political aspects 20th century
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History
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Motion picture industry Political aspects 20th century
;
History
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Motion picture actors and actresses History 20th century
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Expatriate motion picture producers and directors History 20th century
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
Abstract:
"Documents the untold story of the American directors, screenwriters, and actors who emigrated to Europe as a result of the Hollywood blacklist. During the 1950s and early 1960s, these Hollywood exiles directed, wrote, or starred in almost 100 European productions, their contributions ranging from crime film masterpieces like Du rififi chez les hommes (dir. Jules Dassin, 1955) to international blockbusters such as The Bridge on the River Kwai (scr. Carl Foreman and Michael Wilson, 1957) to acclaimed art films like The Servant (dir. Joseph Losey, 1963). At once a lively portrait of a lesser-known American "lost generation" and an examination of an important transitional moment in European cinema,the book presents a compelling argument for the significance of the blacklisted exiles to our understanding of postwar American and European cinema and Cold War cultural relations. The experiences of the blacklisted in Europe not only suggest the need to rethink our understanding of the Hollywood blacklist as a purely domestic phenomenon, but, by shedding new light on European cinema's changing relationship with Hollywood, illuminates the postwar shift from national to "transnational" cinema"--...
URL:
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/28137
