Description: Further DetailsTitle: Robert RossenCondition: NewSubtitle: The Films and Politics of a Blacklisted IdealistEAN: 9780786469819ISBN: 9780786469819Publisher: McFarland & Co IncFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/08/2013Description: This book calls for a re-evaluation of the films of Robert Rossen. Over a 30-year period, he was the most accomplished writer and director who was also a longtime member of the Communist Party, but his achievement has not been recognized, his films have been belittled or ignored, his legacy denied. Rossen's films reflected his times and the American scene with a dramatic intensity and personal expression unmatched by any other filmmaker of the period. The stages of his political journey, from idealism about Communism to his rebellion against the Party's betrayal of those ideals, influenced the rendering of his concerns and themes--the flaws of human nature, the complexities of motives, the paradoxes of betrayal, personal and political. Yet Rossen testified against his fellow filmmakers, and so his morals and character have been denounced, his work diminished as fatally marred by his moral flaws. The opposite is true. Here is a thorough analysis of each of his 22 films and their place in the developing themes of his body of work. It integrates this study of the films with a documented narrative of his relationship to the Party, its history and conflicts, its duplicities--especially the relations of the Party and its followers to the oppressions of the Soviet Union. And so it challenges the validity of the conventional wisdom about the moral issues of the blacklist period.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Weight: 510gAuthor: Alan CastyGenre: Films & TVISBN-10: 0786469811Item Height: 254mmItem Length: 178mmItem Width: 14mmRelease Year: 2013 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Robert Rossen
Title: Robert Rossen
Subtitle: The Films and Politics of a Blacklisted Idealist
EAN: 9780786469819
ISBN: 9780786469819
Release Date: 04/08/2013
Release Year: 2013
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Films & TV
ISBN-10: 0786469811
Number of Pages: 284 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Robert Rossen : the Films and Politics of a Blacklisted Idealist
Publisher: Mcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2013
Subject: Film / General, General, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / History & Criticism
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.8 Oz
Author: Alan Casty
Item Length: 10 in
Subject Area: Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography
Item Width: 7 in
Format: Trade Paperback
