Hollywood Riots

The large literature about the politics of Hollywood in the period of McCarthy and the blacklist has largely overlooked political filmmaking during those agitated years. "Hollywood Riots" examines the most vibrant cycle of independently produced political films made while House Committee on Un-American Activities was investigating communists in the film industry. In doing so, it shifts the focus from the politics of Washington to the politics of Los Angeles and from the films of the Hollywood Ten to the more politically complex films of the progressive community at large. Dibbern shows how the movies produced by progressives at the end of the 1950s, including "The Lawless", "The Sound of Fury", "The Underworld", were the logical cinematic parallel to their political and journalistic advocacy fighting the conservative newspapers. In these films they were recasting political events from California's recent past as politically-engaged narratives that were inflected with their own fears of persecution."
Hollywood Riots" re-views the work of notable directors like Joseph Losey and Cy Endfield, as well as introducing unheralded political screenwriters and directors such as Daniel Mainwaring, Jo Pagano, and Leo C. Popkin.

Autorentext
Doug Dibbern has published on the Hollywood Left, Fritz Lang, and Howard Hawks, as well as contributing to journals such as Cineaste and The Daily Notebook at Mubi.com. He teaches in the Expository Writing Program at New York University.

Inhalt
Introduction: History's Myopia: The Hollywood left obscured by the blacklist

Part One: Reporters, Racism and Riots: Violent Crowds on American Screens
Chapter 1: Independent Filmmaking and the Disintegration of the Popular Front
Chapter 2: Sensationalism, Rumours and the Threat of the Mob - Ace in the Hole, Park Row, No Way Out and Intruder in the Dust

Part Two: Incendiary Ideologies, Reactionary Crowds
Chapter 3: Newspapers and Journals in the Political Struggle
Chapter 4: Mob Violence in Los Angeles and the United States

Part Three: Progressive Filmmakers and the Battle of Ideas
Chapter 5: The Lawless
Chapter 6: The Sound of Fury
Chapter 7: The Well

Conclusion: Race, the People and the Demise of Political Cinema in the 1950s

Notes
Filmography
Bibliography
Index

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