Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-336) and index.

Are you now or have you ever been a Christian? the strange history o f The robe as political allegory / Jeff Smith -- Un-American : Dmytryk, Rossellini, and Christ in concrete / Erica Sheen -- "A living part of the class struggle" : Diego Rivera's The flower carrier and the Hollywo od left / Frank Krutnik -- A monarch for the millions : Jewish filmmake rs, social commentary, and the postwar cycle of boxing films / Peter St anfield -- The violent poetry of the times : the politics of history in Daniel Mainwaring and Joseph Losey's The lawless / Doug Dibbern -- Dar k passages : jazz and civil liberty in the postwar crime film / Sean Mc Cann -- Documentary realism and the postwar left / Will Straw -- Cloake d in compromise : Jules Dassin's "naked" city / Rebecca Prime -- The pr ogressive producer in the studio system : Adrian Scott at RKO, 1943-194 7 / Jennifer Langdon-Teclaw -- The house I live in : Albert Maltz and t he fight against anti-Semitism / Art Simon -- Red Hollywood in transiti on : the case of Robert Rossen / Brian Neve -- Swashbuckling, sapphire, and salt : un-American contributions to TV costume adventure series in the 1950s / Steve Neale -- Hollywood, the new left, and FTA / Mark Shi el -- Red Hollywood / Thom Anderson.

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