The ambivalent legacy of Elia Kazan
Subtitle: the politics of the post-HUAC films
By: Ron Briley
Series: Film and history; Film and history (Lanham, Md.)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9781442271678
Subjects: Motion pictures; Motion picture producers and directors; Communism and motion pictures; Criticism and interpretation; Political activity; History
Description: xxxiv, 241 pages ; 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the post-HUAC testimony films; title: Viva Zapata! (1952) and Cold War liberalism; title: Kazan and the anticommunist film genre: Man on a tightrope (1953); title: The ambivalence of informing: On the waterfront (1954); title: Father and sons and the cost of pursuing the American Dream: East of Eden (1955); title: Sexuality and the new south: Baby doll (1956); title: A return to progressive principles and the shape of things to come: A face in the crowd (1957); title: Looking backward and the cost of progress: Wild river (1960); title: Anticipating the youth rebellion of the 1960s: Splendor in the grass (1960); title: The Anatolian smile and the immigrant experience: America America (1963); title: Rebelling against the arranged life: The arrangement (1969); title: The final films: The visitors (1971) and The last tycoon (1976).