Film and Politics in America

By Brian Neve,

Book cover of Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition

Book description

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…

When you buy books, we may earn a commission that helps keep our lights on (or join the rebellion as a member).

Why read it?

1 author picked Film and Politics in America as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

An editor of my book, Brian Neve has written extensively on the Hollywood Left, with many books, articles, and chapters devoted to filmmakers such as Cy Endfield, Elia Kazan, Robert Rossen, and Joseph Losey, or more broadly to politics and American cinema. A useful complement to the Ceplair & Englund volume, this astute, engaging, and empirically-grounded study explores how a generational cohort of radical and liberal creative practitioners—including Kazan, Losey, Rossen, Abraham Polonsky, Jules Dassin, John Huston, and Orson Welles—were energized by the political culture of the Depression era and sought, in different ways, to navigate the industrial and…

From Frank's list on the Hollywood blacklist.

Want books like Film and Politics in America?

Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like Film and Politics in America.

Browse books like Film and Politics in America

Book cover of The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-60
Book cover of Hollywood Exiles in Europe: The Blacklist and Cold War Film Culture
Book cover of The Red and the Blacklist: The Intimate Memoir of a Hollywood Expatriate

Share your top 3 reads of 2024!

And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.

1,593

readers submitted
so far, will you?

5 book lists we think you will like!

Interested in film, the film industry, and presidential biography?

Film 239 books