Hollywood riots : violent crowds and progressive politics in American film / Doug Dibbern.

Author/creator Dibbern, Doug author.
Format Book
PublicationLondon : I.B. Tauris, 2016.
Descriptionxiv, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCinema and society series
International library of the moving image ; 20
Cinema and society. ^A638155
International library of the moving image 20. ^A1154948
Contents Violent crowds on American screens: reporters, racism, and riots -- Independent filmmaking and the disintigration of the popular front -- The politics of the news -- Mob violence in Los Angeles and the United States -- Nostalgia for the popular from in The lawless -- Cy Endfield's radical despair: The underworld story and The sound of fury -- Racial harmony and The well -- Conclusion: cyclical decay: shifting independence and the decline of progressive filmmaking in the 1950s.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index.
Genre/formHistory.
ISBN1780766327 (hbk)
ISBN9781780766324 (hbk)
ISBN(eISBN)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PN1995.9 .P6 D52 2016 ✔ Available Place Hold