Left of Hollywood : : Cinema, Modernism, and the Emergence of U.S. Radical Film Culture / / Chris Robé.
In the 1930s as the capitalist system faltered, many in the United States turned to the political Left. Hollywood, so deeply embedded in capitalism, was not immune to this shift. Left of Hollywood offers the first book-length study of Depression-era Left film theory and criticism in the United State...
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Robé, Chris, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Left of Hollywood : Cinema, Modernism, and the Emergence of U.S. Radical Film Culture / Chris Robé. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2010 1 online resource (308 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Unfinished Promises to an Orphaned Time -- Chapter One. Montage, Realism, and the Male Gaze -- Chapter Two. Eisenstein in America: The ¡Que Viva México! Debates and Emergent Popular Front U.S. Film Theory and Criticism -- Chapter Three. Screening Race: The Antilynching Film, the Black Press, and U.S. Popular Front Film Criticism -- Chapter Four. Taking Hollywood Back: Gendered Histories of the Hollywood Costume Drama, the Biopic, and Jean Renoir’s La Marseillaise -- Conclusion. Fragments of the Future -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the 1930s as the capitalist system faltered, many in the United States turned to the political Left. Hollywood, so deeply embedded in capitalism, was not immune to this shift. Left of Hollywood offers the first book-length study of Depression-era Left film theory and criticism in the United States. Robé studies the development of this theory and criticism over the course of the 1930s, as artists and intellectuals formed alliances in order to establish an engaged political film movement that aspired toward a popular cinema of social change. Combining extensive archival research with careful close analysis of films, Robé explores the origins of this radical social formation of U.S. Left film culture. Grounding his arguments in the surrounding contexts and aesthetics of a few films in particular—Sergei Eisenstein's Que Viva Mexico!, Fritz Lang's Fury, William Dieterle's Juarez, and Jean Renoir's La Marseillaise—Robé focuses on how film theorists and critics sought to foster audiences who might push both film culture and larger social practices in more progressive directions. Turning at one point to anti-lynching films, Robé discusses how these movies united black and white film critics, forging an alliance of writers who championed not only critical spectatorship but also the public support of racial equality. Yet, despite a stated interest in forging more egalitarian social relations, gender bias was endemic in Left criticism of the era, and female-centered films were regularly discounted. Thus Robé provides an in-depth examination of this overlooked shortcoming of U.S. Left film criticism and theory. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) Film criticism History 20th century United States. Film criticism United States History 20th century. Motion picture industry History 20th century United States. Motion picture industry United States History 20th century. Motion pictures Political aspects History 20th century United States. Motion pictures Political aspects United States History 20th century. Motion pictures Social aspects History 20th century United States. Motion pictures Social aspects United States History 20th century. Politics in motion pictures. Radicalism History 20th century United States. Radicalism United States History 20th century. Socialism and motion pictures United States. Working class in motion pictures Electronic books. Working class in motion pictures. PERFORMING ARTS / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110745344 https://doi.org/10.7560/722965 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292784734 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292784734/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Unfinished Promises to an Orphaned Time -- Chapter One. Montage, Realism, and the Male Gaze -- Chapter Two. Eisenstein in America: The ¡Que Viva México! Debates and Emergent Popular Front U.S. Film Theory and Criticism -- Chapter Three. Screening Race: The Antilynching Film, the Black Press, and U.S. Popular Front Film Criticism -- Chapter Four. Taking Hollywood Back: Gendered Histories of the Hollywood Costume Drama, the Biopic, and Jean Renoir’s La Marseillaise -- Conclusion. Fragments of the Future -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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