Hemispheric American Studies

Caroline F. Levander is a professor of English and Director of the Humanities Research Center at Rice University. She is the author of Cradles of Liberty: Race, the Child and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W.E.B. Du Bois; Voices of the Nation: Women and Public Speech in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture; and the coeditor of The American Child: A Cultural Studies Reader (Rutgers University Press).Robert S. Levine is a professor of English at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity and Conspiracy and Romance: Studies in Brockden Brown Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville, and the editor of a number of volumes, including Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader.

• Introduction / Frank Krutnik, Steve Neale, Brian Neve, and Peter Stanfield1 Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Christian? The Strange History of The Robe as Political Allegory / JEFF SMITH2 Un-American: Dmytryk, Rossellini, and Christ in Concrete / ERICA SHEEN3 'A Living Part of the Class Struggle": Diego Rivera's The Flower Carrier and the Hollywood Left / FRANK KRUTNIK4 A Monarch for the Millions: Jewish Filmmakers, Social Commentary, and the Postwar Cycle of Boxing Films / PETER STANFIELD5 The Violent Poetry of the Times: The Politics of History in Daniel Mainwaring and Joseph Losey's The Lawless / DOUG DIBBERN6 Dark Passages: Jazz and Civil Liberty in the Postwar Crime Film / SEAN MCCANN7 Documentary Realism and the Postwar Left / WILL STRAW8 Cloaked in Compromise: Jules Dassin's "Naked" City / REBECCA PRIME9 The Progressive Producer in the Studio System: Adrian Scott at RKO, 1943-1947 / JENNIFER LANGDON-TECLAW10 The House I Live In: Albert Maltz and the Fight against Anti-Semitism / ART SIMON11 Red Hollywood in Transition: The Case of Robert Rossen / BRIAN NEVE12 Swashbuckling, Sapphire, and Salt: Un-American Contributions to TV Costume Adventure Series in the 1950's / STEVE NEALE13 Hollywood, the New Left, and FTA / MARK SHIEL14 Red Hollywood / THOM ANDERSENAfterword THOM ANDERSENAcknowledgments        Notes        Notes on the Contributors        Index

These superb essays represent cutting edge contributions to the burgeoning field of transnational and hemispheric studies, and expand its scholarship by offering new ways in which scholars might refocus, from the national to the hemispheric and global. This collection's aim to decenter American Studies is an imperative to the evolution of the field. - Emory Elliott (Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Ideas and Society at the Univer)