Langdon, Jennifer E.

Caught in the crossfire [electronic resource] / by Jennifer E. Langdon. - ACLS Humanities E-Book electronic edition. - New York : Columbia University Press, 2010, c2008. - 1 online resource : ill., facsims., ports. - ACLS Humanities E-Book ACLS Gutenberg-e series . - ACLS Humanities E-Book. ACLS Gutenberg-e series. .

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Reel reds, real Americans: politics and culture in the studio system -- Raising the cry of alarm: popular nationalism, World War Two, and t he new political filmmaking -- Progressive producer in the studio syste m: film noir and the production of Murder, my sweet -- They must not es cape: cornered and the specter of postwar fascism -- You can't do that: from The brick foxhole to Crossfire -- It can happen here: noir style and the politics of antifascism in Crossfire -- Is it good for the Jews ? The Jewish response to Crossfire -- Hate is like a loaded gun: shapin g the public response to Crossfire -- Americanism on trial: HUAC, the H ollywood ten, and the politics of anti-communism -- The triumph of anti -communist Americanism: the blacklist and beyond.

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Scott, Adrian, 1912-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation.


Crossfire (Motion picture : 1947)