A collection which brings together a range of comparative work in the burgeoning field of hemispheric studies. This title addresses the question of how scholars might reframe disciplinary boundaries within the broad area of what is generally called American studies.

Introduction / Frank Krutnik, Steve Neale, Brian Neve, and Peter Stanfield 1 Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Christian? The Strange History of The Robe as Political Allegory / JEFF SMITH 2 Un-American: Dmytryk, Rossellini, and Christ in Concrete / ERICA SHEEN 3 'A Living Part of the Class Struggle": Diego Rivera's The Flower Carrier and the Hollywood Left / FRANK KRUTNIK 4 A Monarch for the Millions: Jewish Filmmakers, Social Commentary, and the Postwar Cycle of Boxing Films / PETER STANFIELD 5 The Violent Poetry of the Times: The Politics of History in Daniel Mainwaring and Joseph Losey's The Lawless / DOUG DIBBERN 6 Dark Passages: Jazz and Civil Liberty in the Postwar Crime Film / SEAN MCCANN 7 Documentary Realism and the Postwar Left / WILL STRAW 8 Cloaked in Compromise: Jules Dassin's "Naked" City / REBECCA PRIME 9 The Progressive Producer in the Studio System: Adrian Scott at RKO, 1943-1947 / JENNIFER LANGDON-TECLAW 10 The House I Live In: Albert Maltz and the Fight against Anti-Semitism / ART SIMON 11 Red Hollywood in Transition: The Case of Robert Rossen / BRIAN NEVE 12 Swashbuckling, Sapphire, and Salt: Un-American Contributions to TV Costume Adventure Series in the 1950's / STEVE NEALE 13 Hollywood, the New Left, and FTA / MARK SHIEL 14 Red Hollywood / THOM ANDERSEN Afterword THOM ANDERSEN Acknowledgments         Notes         Notes on the Contributors         Index