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Left of Hollywood by Chris Robé, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Chris Robé

Current price: $37.95
Left of Hollywood by Chris Robé, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Left of Hollywood by Chris Robé, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Left of Hollywood by Chris Robé, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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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. | Left of Hollywood by Chris Robé, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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