Kevin Brianton
Adjunct Senior Adjunct Research Fellow and Book Review Editor for Film and History
Mty reviews for the Winter 2025 edition
Policing Show Business: J. Edgar Hoover, the Hollywood Blacklist, and Cold War Movies by Francis MacDonnell
K Brianton – Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
Francis MacDonnell begins a careful analysis of Cold War cinema.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976847
Hollywood Unions ed. by Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola
K Brianton – Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola have an ambitious approach to Hollywood
Unions. They have compiled a set of essays that examine the full range of Hollywood
industrial organizations from the silent era to the present day.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976848
John Ford at Work: Production Histories 1927–1939 by Lea Jacobs
K Brianton – Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
Lea Jacobs looks at the great auteur through the lens of his production histories.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976849
Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War: The Struggle for Hearts and Minds Goes Global ed. by Stefano Pisu, Francesco Pitassio and Maurizio Zinni
K Brianton – Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
When film historians write about the cinematic Cold War, their focus has largely been
on blacklisting in the American film industry or on Hollywood films that depict
communism in one way or another. Three Italian academics think otherwise.
Cinema history 