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329 Academy Awards. See Oscars (Academy Awards) Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 8 actors, 3, 15, 137, 273 Actors Studio, 139–40 adventure films, 11 Adventures of Robin Hood, The (television series), 36 Advertising Code Administration, 71 Aesop, fables of, 21 Aesopian language, 21, 57, 200–201 African Americans, 14, 83, 84, 124, 126; Broken Arrow as parable of postwar assimilation of, 206; Communist Party policies appealing to, 86–88; as disenfranchised group, 161; in I Was a Communist for the FBI, 100, 104–8, 117; as party members , 83, 84, 87, 105; in The Red Menace, 91, 94, 99–100, 108, 117; southern blacks as “oppressed nation,” 86 Agar, John, 62 agit-prop, 24 Al Qaeda, 32 Alamo, The (1960), 110, 309n34 Aleiss, Angela, 206, 207, 309n28 alien invasion, 32, 245–46, 251, 266; absence of emotion as sign of, 257; brainwashing and, 260; as hybrid of science fiction and horror, 242, 250; as plague, 267. See also science fiction films allegoresis, 30 allegories, 7, 9, 11, 14, 15, 120, 136; anti-Communist, 180; blacklist cinema and political allegory, 28–37; censorship evaded by, 137; Christianity in premodern allegories, 30, 39; cognitive psychology and, 37–41; corruption as trope of, 211; critics’ use of, 171; definition of allegory , 16, 18, 29; didactic function of, 20–21; frames and reference points in interpretation of, 41–48, 120; “hide and seek” duality of blacklist allegories, 127; intention-utteranceinterpretation framework and, 174; interpretation and, 20; in Kazan’s films, 129, 139–40, 141–42, 146; literary , 30–36, 223; moral dimension of, 13; pragmatic allegories, 171–72; as rhetorical mode, 18; The Robe as, 173–84; science fiction films as, 15–16, 240, 242, 263, 268; in variety of film genres, 119; westerns as, 196, 197. See also double allegories Allied Artists, 185 allusion, 30 amendments, constitutional: First Amendment, 40, 56, 84; Fifth Amendment, 56, 112, 121, 155–56, 165, 166 Index 9780520280670_PRINT.indd 329 9780520280670_PRINT.indd 329 04/02/14 3:39 PM 04/02/14 3:39 PM 330 / INDEX American Cinema/American Culture (Belton), 11, 200 American Indians, 202, 204–6, 207, 274–75 American Legion, 187, 188 Andersen, Hans Christian, 302n91 Andersen, Thom, 2, 6, 8, 10 Anderson, Maxwell, 183 Andrews, Dana, 101 Andrews, Robert Hardy, 52, 70 Animal Farm (Orwell), 32–34, 35, 180, 200–201 anti-Communism, 116, 135; antiSemitism and, 84; cynicism of, 100–109; liberal, 215, 234; racebaiting and, 84–85 anti-Communist films, 13, 18, 145, 277; absurdity of explicit messages, 239; Christianity in, 50; Communists represented in, 52–53, 68–69; decline in production of, 25; failure with audiences and critics, 25–28, 51; female Red agent as femme fatale, 70–81; films noir, 14, 49, 61, 67, 82; as political allegories, 28–37; production costs of, 51; as propaganda , 20–28, 49; race and ethnicity represented in, 85; reliance on dialogue , 52 antilynching campaign, 86, 87 anti-Semitism, 14, 25, 87, 88, 124; HUAC members and, 84, 137; in I Was a Communist for the FBI, 107; in The Red Menace, 91 appropriateness, critical problem of, 38 archival research, 16 Arens, Richard, 34 Aristophanes, 200 Arness, James, 112 Arnold, Jack, 241, 247, 252 Around the World in 80 Days (1956), 191 Ascher, Rodney, 274 “Asian disease problem,” 41–42 Askin, Leon, 182 Assignment Paris (1952), 101 Association on American Indian Affairs, 206 atheism, 96, 149, 173, 270 Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959), 252 auteurism, 142 availability heuristic/bias, 45–46, 274–75, 277 Axman, Hanne, 89 Babington, Bruce, 173, 174 Bacall, Lauren, 122 Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), 9 Balaban, Barney, 25 Bamboo Cross, The (1955), 41 bandwagon, propaganda and, 22 Barzman, Norma, 36, 273 Baum, L. Frank, 32 Bavier, Frances, 250 Bazin, Andre, 7 Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The (1953), 250, 251, 253, 256 behavioral economics, 14 Being Red (Fast), 187 Beloved Rogue, The, 130 Belton, John, 11, 207, 243, 308n21; on The Robe, 173, 174; on science fiction films, 239–40 Benet, Stephen Vincent, 111 Benjamin, Walter, 29 Bennett, Alfred Gordon, 254 Bentley, Elizabeth (“Red Spy Queen”), 72 Bentley, Eric, 35 Bergman, Ingmar, 31 Bernstein, Walter, 2, 36, 74, 263 Bessie, Alvah, 8, 308n21 Bianco e nero (Italian film journal), 7 Biberman, Herbert, 87, 190 Bible, literary allegory and, 31 biblical epics, 7, 11, 173, 174, 182 Bicycle Thieves, The (1947), 142 Big Jim McLain (1952), 15, 26, 27, 54, 109–16, 119; cameos by members of HUAC in, 51, 109; “Communism as contagion...
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