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Author:

Robé, Chris, 1972-

Title:

Left of Hollywood : cinema, modernism, and the emergence of U.S. radical film culture / Chris Robé.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

viii, 298 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Motion pictures--History--United States--History--20th century.
Motion pictures--History--United States--History--20th century.
Motion picture industry--United States--History--20th century.
Socialism and motion pictures--United States.
Film criticism--United States--History--20th century.
Radicalism--United States--History--20th century.
Politics in motion pictures.
Working class in motion pictures.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : unfinished promises to an orphaned time -- Montage, realism, and the male gaze -- Eisenstein in America : the !Que viva México! debates and emergent Popular Front U.S. film theory and criticism -- Screening race : the antilynching film, the black press, and U.S. Popular Front film criticism -- Taking Hollywood back : gendered histories of the Hollywood costume drama, the biopic, and Jean Renoir's La Marseillaise -- Conclusion : fragments of the future.

ISBN:

0292722966 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292722965 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)607973986

LCCN:

2010019017

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)