Brian Neve
Research Interests
His research interests focus on film, with particular reference to political film and the relationship between film/cinema, history and politics, especially in America, Britain and Europe.
Teaching
Undergraduate
- PL10410 Political Ideologies
- PL20414 American Politics
- PL20415 Media Politics
- PL20428 Film, Politics and Society
Publications
He is author of Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition (1992, 2000), author of Elia Kazan: the Cinema of an American Outsider (2008), and an editor of “UnAmerican Hollywood”: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era (2007).
Book/s
Neve, B., 2008. Elia Kazan: the cinema of an American outsider. London: I.B.Tauris.
Krutnik, F., Neale, S., Neve, B. and Stanfield, P., eds., 2007. "Un-American Hollywood": Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era. New Brunswick, New Jersey; and London: Rutgers University Press.
Neve, B., 1992. Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition. London: Routledge.
Davies, P. and Neve, B., eds., 1981. Cinema, Politics and Society in America. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Neve, B. and Grimond, J., 1975. The Referendum. London: Rex Collings.
Book Sections
Neve, B., 2013. Forthcoming. The politics of film noir. In: Spicer, A. and Hanson, H., eds. A Companion to Film Noir. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 177-192.
Neve, B., 2013. Morality, politics and self-interest: Framing the Hollywood blacklist. In: Miller, J., ed. Film and Ethics: What Would You Have Done? Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Neve, B., 2012. Hollywood and politics in the 1940s and 1950s. In: Neale, S., ed. The Classical Hollywood Reader. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 389-398.
Neve, B., 2011. "Independence" and the "Art film": Baby Doll and after. In: Dombrowski, L., ed. Kazan revisited. Middletown, CT, USA: Wesleyan University Press, pp. 75-86.
Neve, B., 2011. "The Picture Man": the cinematic strife of Theodore Roosevelt. In: Morgan, I. W., ed. Presidents in the movies: American history and politics on screen. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 65-86. (The evolving American presidency)
Neve, B., 2011. European film culture and the Hollywood blacklist diaspora. In: Feldner, H., Gorarra, C. and Passmore, K., eds. The Lost Decade? The 1950s in European History, Politics, Society and Culture. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Neve, B., 2007. Graham Greene and the Cold War: Cinema's first "The Quiet American". In: Lev, P. and Walsh, J., eds. The Literature/Film Reader: Issues of Adaptation. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, pp. 235-244.
Krutnik, F., Neale, S., Neve, B. and Stanfield, P., 2007. Introduction. In: Krutnik, F., Neale, S., Neve, B. and Stanfield, P., eds. "Un-American Hollywood": Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era. New Brunswick, New Jersey; and London: Rutgers University Press, pp. 3-18.
Neve, B., 2007. Red Hollywood in transition: the case of Robert Rossen. In: Krutnik, F., Neale, S., Neve, B. and Stanfield, P., eds. "Un-American Hollywood": Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era. New Brunswick, New Jersey; and London: Rutgers University Press, pp. 184-197.
Neve, B., 2006. HUAC, the Blacklist and the decline of social cinema. In: Lev, P., ed. The Fifties: Transforming the American Screen, 1950-1959. Vol. Volume 7. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, pp. 65-86. (History of the American Cinema)
Neve, B., 2005. A past master of his craft: an interview with Fred Zinnemann. In: Miller, G., ed. Fred Zinnemann Interviews. Jackson, Miss.: University of Mississippi Press, pp. 145-156.
Neve, B., 2005. Film and Northern Ireland: beyond 'the troubles'? In: Everett, W., ed. European Identity in Cinema. 2nd edition. Bristol: Intellect Books, pp. 87-96.
Neve, B., 2004. From exile to expatriate: class and genre in Joseph Losey's early British films. In: Wagstaff, P., ed. Border Crossings, Mapping Identities in Europe. Vol. Volume 16. Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 207-224. (European Connections series)
Neve, B., 2003. HUAC, the Blacklist and the decline of social cinema. In: Lev, P., ed. The Fifties: Transforming the American Screen, 1950-1959. Vol. Volume 7. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 65-86. (History of the American Cinema)
Neve, B., 2003. The personal and the political: Elia Kazan and On the Waterfront. In: Rapf, J. E., ed. On the Waterfront. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 20-39. (Series on Film)
Neve, B., 2002. Fred Zinneman: a past master of his craft. In: Crowdus, G. and Georgakas, D., eds. The Cineaste Interviews 2: Filmmakers on the Art and Politics of the Cinema. Chicago: Lake View Press, pp. 262-274.
Neve, B., 2002. Independent cinema and modern Hollywood: pluralism in American cultural politics? In: Davies, P. and Wells, P., eds. American Film and Politics from Reagan to Bush Jr. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 123-138.
Neve, B., 2000. On the Waterfront. In: Ellwood, D., ed. The Movies as History: Visions of the Twentieth Century. London: Sutton Publishing, pp. 105-113.
Neve, B. and Davies, P., 1981. Introduction. In: Davies, P. and Neve, B., eds. Cinema, Politics and Society in America. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 1-18.
Neve, B., 1981. The 1950s: the case of Elia Kazan and On the Waterfront. In: Davies, P. and Neve, B., eds. Cinema, Politics and Society in America. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 97-118.
Articles
Neve, B., 2010. Inflation (1943) and the blacklist: the disrupted film career of Cy Endfield. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 30 (4), pp. 515-528.
Neve, B., 2005. Elia Kazan's first testimony to the House Committee on un-American activities, executive session, 14 January 1952. Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, 25, pp. 251-272.
Neve, B., 2005. Cy Endfield: A Dossier. Film Studies, An International Review, 7 (Winter), pp. 116-127.
Neve, B., 2005. The Hollywood Left: Robert Rossen and Postwar Hollywood. Film Studies, An International Review, 7, 54--65.
Neve, B., 2002. Reassessing On the Waterfront. American Studies Today, 11, pp. 25-28.
Neve, B., 2002. Standing up for Lindsay Anderson (Review article). Cineaste, 28 (1), pp. 60-61.
Neve, B., 2000. Frames of presidential and candidate politics in American films of the 1990s. Javnost/The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture, 7 (2), pp. 19-32.
Neve, B., 1999. Red Hollywood. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 19 (1), pp. 129-135.
Neve, B., 1997. Cinema, the Ceasefire and "the troubles". Irish Studies Review, 20, pp. 2-8.
Neve, B., 1997. Fred Zinnemann: a past master of his craft. Cineaste, 23 (1), pp. 15-19.
Neve, B., 1994. Film and the Irish conflict. Society for the Philosophic Study of the Visual Arts Newsletter, 4 (2), pp. 14-15.
Neve, B., 1990. Fellow Traveller. Sight & Sound, 59 (2), pp. 117-119.
Neve, B., 1989. Being a contender: a review essay. Journal of American Studies, 23 (2), pp. 299-301.
Neve, B., 1987. The immigrant experience on film: Kazan's America America. Film & History, 17 (3), pp. 62-68.
Neve, B., 1985. Government and film policy in Britain: a new era? Political Quarterly, 56 (1), pp. 85-89.
Neve, B., 1984. The screenwriter and the social problem film, 1936-1938: the case of Robert Rossen at Warner Bros. Film & History, 14 (1), pp. 2-13.
Neve, B., 1977. Bureaucracy and politics in local government: the role of local education officers. Public Administration, Autumn, pp. 291-303.

