TY - BOOK AU - Lawson,John Howard TI - Film in the battle of ideas AV - PN 1993.5 .U6 L3 1953 U1 - 792.93 PY - 1953/// CY - New York, New York PB - Masses & Mainstream KW - Motion pictures KW - Social aspects KW - History N1 - Part I. The battle of ideas : 1. Film and foreign policy -- 2. Hollywood and the un-Americans -- 3. The function of film in a class society --; Part II. The social pattern of Hollywood films : 1. The gangster becomes a soldier -- 2. Hollywood history lesson -- 3. Celluloid revolution -- 4. Mass-man -- 5. The degradation of women -- 6. Mother-informer --; Part III. Toward a people's film art : 1. Two camps in the world of film -- 2. What can be done about Hollywood? -- 3. Audience organization -- 4. The responsibility of the artist -- 5. Independent production N2 - A series of essays from a Marxist perspective about the role of film culture in the first half of the 20th century United States. John Howard Lawson was one of the Hollywood Ten: ten filmmakers blacklisted by the House of Un-American Activities Committee UR - https://archive.org/details/LawsonFilmInTheBattleOfIdeas/mode/2up ER -