Hollywood exiles in Europe : the blacklist and Cold War film culture /

Hollywood exiles in Europe : the blacklist and Cold War film culture /

Rebecca Prime documents the untold story of the American directors, screenwriters, and actors who exiled themselves to Europe as a result of the Hollywood blacklist. During the 1950s and 1960s, these Hollywood émigrés directed, wrote, or starred in almost one hundred European productions. The book o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Prime, Rebecca, 1974-
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Series:New directions in international studies.
Subjects:
Expatriate motion picture producers and directors > Europe > History > 20th century.
Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > History > 20th century.
Motion picture industry > Political aspects > Europe > History > 20th century.
Motion picture industry > Political aspects > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Blacklisting of entertainers > United States > History > 20th century.
Blacklisting of authors > United States > History > 20th century.
Cold War > Influence.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
Blacklisting of entertainers > United States > History > 20th century.
Cold war.
Expatriate motion picture producers and directors > Europe > History > 20th century.
Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > History > 20th century.
Motion picture industry > Political aspects > California > Los Angeles > History > 20th century.
Motion picture industry > Political aspects > Europe > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The radical community in Hollywood
  • Life on the blacklist : production and politics in postwar Europe
  • The blacklist and "runaway" production
  • The blacklist, exile, and the transatlantic noir
  • Cosmopolitan visions, cold war fears
  • Blacklisted directors, art cinema, and the capricesof film criticism
  • The legacy of the blacklist
  • Conclusion.