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When he was summoned before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky (1911-1999) was labeled 'a very dangerous citizen' by Harold Velde, a congressman from Illinois. Lawyer, educator, novelist, labor organizer, radio and television scriptwriter, film director and screenwriter, wartime intelligence operative, and full-time radical romantic, Polonsky was blacklisted in Hollywood for refusing to be an informer. The "New York Times" called his blacklisting the single greatest loss to American film during the McCarthy era, and his expressed admirers include Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Sidney Lumet, Warren Beatty, and Harry Belafonte. In this first critical and cultural biography of Abraham Polonsky, Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner present both an accomplished consideration of a remarkable survivor of America's cultural cold war and a superb study of the Hollywood left. The Bronx-born son of immigrant parents, Polonsky - in the few years after the end of World War II and just before the blacklist - had one of the most distinguished careers in Hollywood. He wrote two films that established John Garfield's postwar persona, "Body and Soul" (1947), still the standard for boxing films and the model for such movies as "Raging Bull" and "Pulp Fiction"; and "Force of Evil" (1948), the great noir drama that he also directed. Once blacklisted, Polonsky quit working under his own name, yet he proved to be one of television's most talented writers. Later in life he became the most acerbic critic of the Hollywood blacklist's legacy while writing and directing films such as "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here" (1970). "A Very Dangerous Citizen" goes beyond biography to help us understand the relationship between art and politics in American culture and to uncover the effects of U.S. anticommunism and anti-Semitism. Rich in anecdote and in analysis, it provides an informative and entertaining portrait of one of the most intriguing personalities of twentieth-century American culture.
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说实话,一开始我担心这部作品会过于沉重,但阅读体验远远超出了我的预期。作者在处理宏大主题时,非常擅长将叙事巧妙地聚焦于个体命运之上。那些历史的洪流、社会的变迁,都通过几个核心人物的命运被生动地折射出来。这种“以小见大”的叙事策略非常高明,使得原本可能枯燥的说教,转化为了扣人心弦的个人史诗。我特别喜欢作者在叙事中时不时流露出的那种淡淡的、克制的悲悯情怀,它没有泛滥的煽情,却比任何激烈的控诉都更有力量。它让我深刻体会到,在时代的大背景下,个体的选择是多么的无力和关键。这本书不仅提供了娱乐,更提供了一种理解我们所处时代的独特视角。它像一杯醇厚的陈年老酒,后劲十足,让人在平静之后,依然能感受到那股强劲的冲击力。
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