Rediscover the films and filmmakers of one of the darkest chapters in recent American history with the book Red & Black - Hollywood Left and the Blacklist. Published by Les éditions de l'œil and edited and curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht, this volume, accompanying the Retrospective at Locarno79, brings together new essays by international scholars and critics charting the rise of the Hollywood Left, the making and aftermath of the blacklist, and its echoes across cinema in the US, Europe, and Latin America.
Looking at figures such as John Garfield, Joseph Losey, Dalton Trumbo, Dorothy Parker, and Charlie Chaplin, this collection of essays on the era reveals how filmmakers and writers confronted censorship, exile, and political persecution with a tenacious and defiantly creative resistance that still resonates today.
