Bücher von Bob Herzberg

Through a century of movies, the US military held sway over war and service-oriented films. Drawing on production files, correspondence between bureaucrats and filmmakers, and contemporary critical reviews, the author reveals the behind-the-scenes political manoeuvres that led to the rewriting of history on-screen.

Deals with the changing image of the American Indian in the Western film genre, contrasting the fictionalized images of native Americans portrayed in classic films from Francis Boggs' ""Curse of the Redman"" to Michael Mann's ""Last of the Mohicans"" against the historical reality of life on the American frontier.

The adaptations of seven of the pulps' best writers - Ernest Haycox, Luke Short, Frank Gruber, Norman A Fox, Louis L'Amour, Marvin H. Albert, and Clair Huffaker - are analyzed here. The work looks at how the pulp novels and the movie adaptations reflected the times in which they were produced.

Examines the careers of communist and liberal actors, screenwriters, playwrights, and directors in Hollywood from the late 1920s to the present. It uses studio and PCA correspondence, FBI files, film and theatre reviews, and other sources to reveal how all of these artists were concerned with and active in the cinema of social protest.

Discusses the many Western films, as well as the novels they are based on, that illustrate distortions of the law in the Old West and the many ways, most of them marked by vengeance, in which its characters pursued justice. The author has used correspondence from studio files, letters from the Production Code office, newspaper and magazine reviews, passages from the novels to analyse not only the filmmakers' intentions but also how the films became a showcase of America as it promoted the principles of due process, trial by jury, and innocence before proven guilty.