Producer of Controversy: Stanley Kramer, Hollywood Liberalism, and the Cold War

by Jennifer Frost

With films ranging from High Noon to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Stanley Kramer (1913-2001) was one of the most successful and prolific director-producers of his day. But even as critics praised his courage in taking on such issues as nuclear war, racism, fascism, and the battle between science and religion, others condemned his work as "emptily pretentious" and "hollow, falsely sentimental, overproduced." Whether Kramer was "one of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700624961
• ISBN13: 9780700624966
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 10.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"