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Edward Dmytryk: Reassessing His Films and Life

Edward Dmytryk: Reassessing His Films and Life

McDonagh, Fintan

Paperback

Biographies GeneralFilm StudiesFilmmaking

ISBN10: 1476680922
ISBN13: 9781476680927
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jul 21 2021
Pages: 315
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.80 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

Edward Dmytryk was one of the so-called Hollywood Ten jailed for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947.

Finding himself blacklisted after his prison sentence and unable to operate under a pseudonym, he took the step of testifying and naming names to the Committee. His career resumed to considerable commercial success, but also to prolonged and bitter criticism from the left and persistent mistrust from the right. Acknowledged as one of the key figures in the development of the film noir genre, having directed one of its first films, Murder, My Sweet, Dmytryk has otherwise frequently been sidelined in critical studies because of the controversy. This book is the first to critically evaluate each of the dozens of films he made between the 1930s and the 1970s including The Young Lions, Crossfire and The Caine Mutiny, among many others.

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