Author Archive for: ‘Mile Klindo’

Interviewed February 14, 2010 Can we start with your response to what are some common misconceptions about the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee), in terms of its aberration in the long liberal democratic tradition in American culture and politics? I suppose there are at least two ways of looking at this. I think the dominant perspective on HUAC, which most …

Interviewed February 12, 2010 I would like to start with your assessment of the film gris period in Hollywood and what it represented in the context of film noir. How do you respond to Thom Andersen’s reading of this movement as the highest expression of noir, with its heightened social and psychological realism? It comes at the tail end of …

Interviewed February 9, 2010 I’d like to discuss some interrelated issues concerning the legacy of the blacklisting period. They can be grouped into the categories of the industrial-economic legacy, the political legacy and the artistic-aesthetic legacy. You have commented that teaching American film history requires a full stop at the blacklist, as it does with discussions of the coming of …

In the course of the research for my doctoral thesis, The Hollywood Left and McCarthyism: The Political and Aesthetic Legacy of the Red Scare, in February of 2010 I was kindly granted interviews with three leading authorities on this vast topic: Jon Lewis of Oregon State University, Dennis Broe of Long Island University, Brooklyn, and Brian Neve of Bath University, …