{"title":"I Married a Communist: The Book! The Movie! The Commie Threat!","authors":"I. Nadel","doi":"10.1353/prs.2020.0011","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Howard Hughes, Philip Roth, and a 1949 anti-communist movie contextualize Roth's 1998 novel I Married a Communist and the politics of cinema and American writing during the McCarthy period. With films like Red Menace and I Was a Communist for the FBI, producers were eager to release \"red scare\" movies to promote a right-wing agenda and educate the public on communist dangers. Audiences were equally fascinated and frightened to learn of spies in their midst. The popularity of the genre suggests that Roth might have seen several of these anticommunist films, and similarities in plot and character between the 1949 I Married a Communist and Roth's novel immediately connect the two. Commie noir films, Roth as a young film critic, and film history also come into play with such details as over fifty anti-communist films produced in Hollywood in just over five years. The movie and the book elaborate this situation in addition to the criminalization of politics.","PeriodicalId":37093,"journal":{"name":"Philip Roth Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Philip Roth Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/prs.2020.0011","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT:Howard Hughes, Philip Roth, and a 1949 anti-communist movie contextualize Roth's 1998 novel I Married a Communist and the politics of cinema and American writing during the McCarthy period. With films like Red Menace and I Was a Communist for the FBI, producers were eager to release "red scare" movies to promote a right-wing agenda and educate the public on communist dangers. Audiences were equally fascinated and frightened to learn of spies in their midst. The popularity of the genre suggests that Roth might have seen several of these anticommunist films, and similarities in plot and character between the 1949 I Married a Communist and Roth's novel immediately connect the two. Commie noir films, Roth as a young film critic, and film history also come into play with such details as over fifty anti-communist films produced in Hollywood in just over five years. The movie and the book elaborate this situation in addition to the criminalization of politics.
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