Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: What More Can Be Said about the Hollywood Blacklist? 1. A Bifocal View of Hollywood during the Blacklist Period: Film as Propaganda and Allegory 2. I Was a Communist for RKO: Hollywood Anti-Communism and the Problem of Representing Political Beliefs 3. Reds and Blacks: Representing Race in Anti-Communist Films 4. Stoolies, Cheese-Eaters, and Tie Sellers: Genre, Allegory, and the HUAC Informer 5. The Cross and the Sickle: Allegorical Representations of the Blacklist in Historical Films 6. Roaming the Plains along the "New Frontier": The Western as Allegory of the Blacklist and the Cold War 7. Loving the Alien: Science Fiction Cinema as Cold War Allegory Conclusion: Old Wounds and the Texas Sharpshooter Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Jeff Smith is Professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the author of The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music.

Reviews

"[A] fresh view, if not always of the films, then of the way critics and scholars have shaped discussions over time." The Arts Fuse "Smith is in his element when unearthing subtext ... His readings have a richness of their own." -- Bernard F. Dick American Studies