In A Social Cinema: Film-making and Politics in America; Brian Neve presents a study of the social and political nature of American film by concentrating on a generation of writers from the thirties who directed films in Hollywood in the 1940s. He discusses how they negotiated their roles in relation to the studio system; itself undergoing change; and to what extent their experience in the political and theatre movements of thirties New York was to be reflected in their later films.Focusing in particular on Orson Welles; Elia Kazan; Jules Dassin; Abraham Polonsky; Nicholas Ray; Robert Rossen and Joseph Losey; Neve relates the work of these writers and directors to the broader industrial; bureaucratic; social and political developments of the period 1935-1970. With special emphasis on the post-war decade; bringing together archive and secondary sources; Neve explores a lost tradition of social fimmaking in America.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Thought provoking exploration of queerness and/in balletBy Critical thinkerI found this to be a very engaged and thoughtful book on possible relationships between ballet and queerness. Professor Stoneley writes accessibly and in a jargon-free way; but broaches complex issues and questions about relationships between ballet and sexual identities. The book negotiates a range of issues which might allow queerness to be read specifically in the light of ballet; and vice-versa; including ideas about vision; the body; performance; biography; and community. In some cases the breadth and range of topics covered means that perhaps not all connections and perspectives always link-up or cohere; but that; for me; does not detract from the stimulating and thought-provoking nature of the book.