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When he was summoned before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (1911-1999) was labeled "a very dangerous citizen" by Harold Velde, a congressman from Illinois. Lawyer, educator, novelist, labor organizer, radio and television scriptwriter, film director and screenwriter, wartime intelligence operative, and full-time radical romantic, Polonsky was blacklisted in Hollywood for refusing to be an informer. The New York Times called his blacklisting the single greatest loss to American film during the McCarthy era, and his expressed admirers include Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Sidney Lumet, Warren Beatty, and Harry Belafonte. In this first critical and cultural biography of Abraham Polonsky, Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner present both an accomplished consideration of a remarkable survivor of America's cultural cold war and a superb study of the Hollywood left. The Bronx-born son of immigrant parents, Polonsky--in the few years after the end of World War II and just before the blacklist--had one of the most distinguished careers in Hollywood. He wrote two films that established John Garfield's postwar persona, Body and Soul (1947), still the standard for boxing films and the model for such movies as Raging Bull and Pulp Fiction ; and Force of Evil (1948), the great noir drama that he also directed. Once blacklisted, Polonsky quit working under his own name, yet he proved to be one of television's most talented writers. Later in life he became the most acerbic critic of the Hollywood blacklist's legacy while writing and directing films such as Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1970). A Very Dangerous Citizen goes beyond biography to help us understand the relationship between art and politics in American culture and to uncover the effects of U.S. anticommunism and anti-Semitism. Rich in anecdote and in analysis, it provides an informative and entertaining portrait of one of the most intriguing personalities of twentieth-century American culture.

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Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520236726
ISBN-13
9780520236721
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Very Dangerous Citizen : Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left
Author
Paul Buhle, Dave Wagner
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Film / General, Film / Screenwriting, General, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), American / General, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
285 Pages

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9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Ps3531.O377 Z59 2001
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Adventures of the Artist as Intellectual 2. The Good War and After 3. The Politics and Mythology of Film Art: Polonsky's Noir Era 4. Polonsky's Fifties 5. Triumph and Retrospect Appendix Notes Bibliographical Note Index
Copyright Date
2001
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
00-028692
Dewey Decimal
791.43/0233/092 B
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes

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