TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dibbern,Doug
TI  - Hollywood riots: violent crowds and progressive politics in American film 
T2  - Cinema and society series
SN  - 9780857729910
AV  - PN1995.9.P6 D52 2016eb
U1  - 791.43/6581 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - I.B. Tauris
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Socialism and motion pictures
KW  - Politics in motion pictures
KW  - Cinéma
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Socialisme et cinéma
KW  - Politique au cinéma
KW  - Film: styles & genres
KW  - bicssc
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS
KW  - Reference
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Politik och film, USA
KW  - sfit
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index; Violent crowds on American screens: reporters, racism, and riots -- Independent filmmaking and the disintigration of the popular front -- The politics of the news -- Mob violence in Los Angeles and the United States -- Nostalgia for the Popular Front in The lawless -- Cy Endfield's radical despair: The underworld story and The sound of fury -- Racial harmony and The well -- Conclusion: cyclical decay: shifting independence and the decline of progressive filmmaking in the 1950s
N2  - The large literature about the politics of Hollywood in the period of McCarthy and the blacklist has largely overlooked political filmmaking during those agitated years. "Hollywood Riots" examines the most vibrant cycle of independently produced political films made while House Committee on Un-American Activities was investigating communists in the film industry. In doing so, it shifts the focus from the politics of Washington to the politics of Los Angeles and from the films of the Hollywood Ten to the more politically complex films of the progressive community at large. Dibbern shows how the movies produced by progressives at the end of the 1950s, including "The Lawless", "The Sound of Fury", "The Underworld", were the logical cinematic parallel to their political and journalistic advocacy fighting the conservative newspapers. In these films they were recasting political events from California's recent past as politically-engaged narratives that were inflected with their own fears of persecution. "Hollywood Riots" re-views the work of notable directors like Joseph Losey and Cy Endfield, as well as introducing unheralded political screenwriters and directors such as Daniel Mainwaring, Jo Pagano, and Leo C. Popkin.--Publisher website
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