{"product_id":"the-many-lives-of-cy-endfield-film-noir-the-blacklist-and-zulu-paperback","title":"The Many Lives of Cy Endfield: Film Noir, the Blacklist, and Zulu - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrian Neve\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCy Endfield (1914-1995) was a filmmaker who was also fascinated by the worlds of close-up magic, science, and invention. After directing several distinctive low-budget films in Hollywood, he was blacklisted in 1951 and fled to Britain rather than \"name names\" before HUAC, the U.S. House of Representatives' Un-American Activities Committee. The Pennsylvania-born Endfield made films that exhibit an outsider's eye for his adopted country, including the working-class \"trucking\" drama \u003ci\u003eHell Drivers\u003c\/i\u003e and the cult film \u003ci\u003eZulu\u003c\/i\u003e-a war epic as politically nuanced as it is spectacular. Along the way he encountered Orson Welles, collaborated with pioneering animator Ray Harryhausen, published a book of his card magic, and co-invented an early word processor that anticipated today's technology.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Many Lives of Cy Endfield\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book on this fascinating figure. The fruit of years of archival research and personal interviews by Brian Neve, it documents Endfield's many identities: among them second-generation immigrant, Jew, Communist, and exile. Neve paints detailed scenes not only of the political and personal dramas of the blacklist era, but also of the attempts by Hollywood directors in the postwar 1940s and early 1950s to address social and political controversies of the day. Out of these efforts came two crime melodramas (what would become known as film noir) on inequalities of class and race: \u003ci\u003eThe Underworld Story\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Fury\u003c\/i\u003e (also known as \u003ci\u003eTry and Get Me!\u003c\/i\u003e). Neve reveals the complex production and reception histories of Endfield's films, which the critic Jonathan Rosenbaum saw as reflective of \"an uncommon intelligence so radically critical of the world we live in that it's dangerous.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Many Lives of Cy Endfield\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a revealing biography of an independent, protean figure, an insight into film industry struggles, and a sensitive and informed study of an underappreciated body of work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Best Five Books of the Year list, Iranian 24 Monthly, London UK \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Make[s] a case for [Endfield's] distinctive voice while tracing the way struggle, opposition, and thwarted ambition both defined his life and became the powerful themes of his best work.\"-\u003ci\u003eCineaste\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrian Neve is an honorary reader in politics and film at the University of Bath. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eFilm and Politics in America: A Social Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eElia Kazan: The Cinema of an American Outsider \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor of \u003ci\u003e\"Un-American\" Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 276\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 21, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47467923079421,"sku":"9780299303747","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/REJxSExpajd5Q0x1SU44aG9Wdy9HUT09.webp?v=1777281479","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/the-many-lives-of-cy-endfield-film-noir-the-blacklist-and-zulu-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}