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Left of Hollywood: Cinema, Modernism, and the Emergence U.S. Radical Film Culture
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Left of Hollywood: Cinema, Modernism, and the Emergence U.S. Radical Film Culture
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Grounding his arguments in the surrounding contexts and aesthetics of a few films in particularSergei Eisenstein's
, Fritz Lang's
, William Dieterle's
, and Jean Renoir's
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.