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The Many Lives of Cy Endfield: Film Noir, the Blacklist, and Zulu (Wisconsin Film Studies)
Brian Neve
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Paperback. Cy Endfield (19141995) was a filmmaker ("Try and Get Me!," "Hell Drivers," "Zulu") with interests in close-up magic, science, and invention. The director of several distinctive Hollywood movies, he was blacklisted and refused to "name names" before the House Un-American Activities Committee." Series: Wisconsin Film Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APFB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 448.
Cy Endfield (1914–1995) was a filmmaker who was also fascinated by the worlds of close-up magic, science, and invention. After directing several distinctive low-budget films in Hollywood, he was blacklisted in 1951 and fled to Britain rather than “name names” before HUAC, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Un-American Activities Committee. The Pennsylvania-born Endfield made films that exhibit an outsider’s eye for his adopted country, including the working-class “trucking” drama Hell Drivers and the cult film Zulu—a war epic as politically nuanced as it is spectacular. Along the way he encountered Orson Welles, collaborated with pioneering animator Ray Harryhausen, published a ... Read more
Cy Endfield (1914–1995) was a filmmaker who was also fascinated by the worlds of close-up magic, science, and invention. After directing several distinctive low-budget films in Hollywood, he was blacklisted in 1951 and fled to Britain rather than “name names” before HUAC, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Un-American Activities Committee. The Pennsylvania-born Endfield made films that exhibit an outsider’s eye for his adopted country, including the working-class “trucking” drama Hell Drivers and the cult film Zulu—a war epic as politically nuanced as it is spectacular. Along the way he encountered Orson Welles, collaborated with pioneering animator Ray Harryhausen, published a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Series
Wisconsin Film Studies
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299303747
SKU
V9780299303747
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About Brian Neve
Brian Neve is an honorary reader in politics and film at the University of Bath, USA. He is the author of Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition and Elia Kazan: The Cinema of an American Outsider and coeditor of “Un-American” Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era.
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