Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten: A Memoir of the Holllywood Ten - Rilegato

Dmytryk, Edward

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ISBN 10: 0809319985 ISBN 13: 9780809319985

Casa editrice: Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

In 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee rudely interrupted the successful career and life of Edward Dmytryk, citing him with contempt of Congress. As a result, Dmytryk was fired by RKO and spent three years in England before returning to the United States to serve a six-month jail sentence and undergo a second round of hearings, during which he recanted and provided evidence against several of his former colleagues.

In this personal and perceptive book, Dmytryk sharply chronicles the history of a particularly turbulent era in American political life while examining his own life before and after the events universally called the witch hunts. He details his brief membership in the Communist Party of America, explaining his initial commitment to what he perceived as communist ideals of civil liberties, economic justice, and antifacism, followed by his eventual disillusionment with the party as it betrayed those ideals. He goes on to provide a fair assessment of what then happened to him and the effect it had on the rest of his life.

Dmytryk describes the activities, prejudices, and personal behaviors of all the parties enmeshed in the congressional hearings on communism in Hollywood. His reactions to other members of the Hollywood Ten and his recollection of conversations with them lend his book an immediacy that is not only informative but also absorbing. Most importantly, he does not uphold an ideology but rather presents the events as he perceived them, understood them, and responded to them. Dmytryk’s account is characterized by an openness born of a mature awareness of personal trial as history.

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L'autore:

Edward Dmytryk was the driving force behind some of Hollywood’s greatest films, especially in the film-noir genre. Dmytryk’s work on Crossfire (1947) earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Director. He is also known for such films as Murder, My Sweet (1945), The Caine Mutiny (1954), Raintree County (1957), The Young Lions (1958), and A Walk on the Wild Side (1962). Both Crossfire and The Caine Mutiny were nominated for Academy Awards as Best Picture.

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Book by Dmytryk Edward

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• Editore: Southern Illinois Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0809319985
• ISBN 13: 9780809319985
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 210