Left of Hollywood
Subtitle: cinema, modernism, and the emergence of U.S. radical film culture
By: Chris Robé
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Austin, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780292722965
Subjects: Motion pictures; Working class in motion pictures; Radicalism; Film criticism; Motion picture industry; Socialism and motion pictures; Politics in motion pictures; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : unfinished promises to an orphaned time; title: Montage, realism, and the male gaze; title: Eisenstein in America : the !Que viva México! debates and emergent Popular Front U.S. film theory and criticism; title: Screening race : the antilynching film, the black press, and U.S. Popular Front film criticism; title: Taking Hollywood back : gendered histories of the Hollywood costume drama, the biopic, and Jean Renoir's La Marseillaise; title: Conclusion : fragments of the future.