9. The Progressive Producer in the Studio System: Adrian Scott at RKO, 1943–1947

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Christian? The Strange History of The Robe as Political Allegory 19
5. 2. Un-American: Dmytryk, Rossellini, and Christ in Concrete 39
6. 3. “A Living Part of the Class Struggle”: Diego Rivera’s The Flower Carrier and the Hollywood Left 51
7. 4. A Monarch for the Millions: Jewish Filmmakers, Social Commentary, and the Postwar Cycle of Boxing Films 79
8. 5. The Violent Poetry of the Times: The Politics of History in Daniel Mainwaring and Joseph Losey’s The Lawless 97
9. 6. Dark Passages: Jazz and Civil Liberty in the Postwar Crime Film 113
10. 7. Documentary Realism and the Postwar Left 130
11. 8. Cloaked in Compromise: Jules Dassin’s “Naked” City 142
12. 9. The Progressive Producer in the Studio System: Adrian Scott at RKO, 1943–1947 152
13. 10. The House I Live In: Albert Maltz and the Fight against Anti-Semitism 169
14. 11. Red Hollywood in Transition: The Case of Robert Rossen 184
15. 12. Swashbuckling, Sapphire, and Salt: Un-American Contributions to TV Costume Adventure Series in the 1950s 198
16. 13. Hollywood, the New Left, and FTA 210
17. 14. Red Hollywood 225
18. Afterword 264
19. Acknowledgments 277
20. Notes 279
21. Notes on the Contributors 337
22. Index 339