The “Red Scare” and the infamous Hollywood blacklist of the McCarthy era will be the timely topics of the retrospective at this year’s Locarno Film Festival. Under the title Red & Black – Hollywood Left and the Blacklist, the Swiss festival’s Retrospettiva, once again curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht, will put the spotlight on “one of the most turbulent and politically charged periods in the history of American cinema.”
Last year, the festival revisited the “Great Expectations” of British postwar cinema. This year, it focuses on a politicized time in Hollywood postwar history. During the period from 1947 to the early 1960s, Hollywood professionals suspected of communist ties faced a crackdown. Produced in partnership with the Cinémathèque Suisse and with the support of UCLA Film & Television Archive, the program will paint “a complex portrait of an era in which creatives were confronted by unprecedented abuse of state and industry power and which they met, courageously, with fierce artistic resistance,” Locarno highlighted.
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