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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783863303321

Autore

Neve Brian

Titolo

Film and politics in America : a social tradition / / Brian Neve

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992

ISBN

1-134-97331-4

0-415-02619-9

1-138-16925-0

1-134-97332-2

1-280-04740-2

0-203-64553-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (302 p.)

Collana

Studies in film, television, and the media

Disciplina

302.23/43/0973

791.430973

Soggetti

Motion picture industry - United States - History

Motion pictures - Political aspects - United States

Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-270) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front  Cover; Film and Politics in America; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Out of the thirties; 2. Populism, romanticism and Frank Capra; 3. Liberals, radicals and the wartime agenda; 4. Post-war Holly wood; 5. Post-war: new directors and structures; 6. Film noir and society; 7. Into the fifties; 8. The sixties; Notes; Select bibliography; Index of films; General index

Sommario/riassunto

In A Social Cinema: Film-making and Politics in America, Brian Neve presents a study of the social and political nature of American film by concentrating on a generation of writers from the thirties who directed films in Hollywood in the 1940's. He discusses how they negotiated their roles in relation to the studio system, itself undergoing change, and to what extent their experience in the political and theatre movements of thirties New York was to be reflected in their later films.Focusing in particular on Orson Welles, Elia Kazan, Jules Dassin, Abraham Polonsky, Nicholas Ray, R