The book calls for a re-evaluation, a re-seeing, of the films of Robert Rossen. Over a 30-year period, he was the most accomplished writer and director who was also a long-time member of the Communist
Casty turns here from his usual focus on the films themselves to look at how the industry as a whole reacted to the McCarthy attacks during the late 1940s and early 1950s. He describes the culture of
