Title
The Good Fight: The Spanish Civil War and U.S. Left Film Criticism
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Examines the impact of the Spanish struggle on leftist documentary film culture, resulting in more commercially conventional forms of cinema such as The Spanish Earth (1937). Explores the political reasons behind the film’s failure to garner domestic mass-distribution despite favorable box office receipts, namely a tightly controlled Hollywood fearful of protest. Mentions in passing Hemingway’s connection to the film’s director, Joris Ivens.
Published in
Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media
Volume
51
Issue
1
Date
Spring 2010
Pages
79-107
COinS
Citation
Robé, Christopher. “The Good Fight: The Spanish Civil War and U.S. Left Film Criticism.” Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 51, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 79-107.