...Trumbo’s major breakthrough occurred when he was assigned to adapt Howard Fast’s historical novel about the great slave uprising against the Roman Empire. To maintain his vision of the movie, he waged a series of battles against director Stanley Kubrick and some of the actors. As part...

... meaning of “antifascism,” which is captured in Howard Fast's “An Epitaph for Sidney.” Abraham Lincoln Battalion Antifascism and late antifascism Jews and Literary Communism Young Communist League YCL Daily Worker Fascism esp Nazism Fast Howard Franco Francisco Industrial Workers of the World IWW...

...This chapter concerns the Cold War blacklisting of the famous American writer, Howard Fast. The chapter begins with the banning in New York schools of his Citizen Tom Paine, recounts his difficulties publishing in an increasingly hostile environment, and concludes with his...

... of Carrie Mae Weems before moving into a series of textual engagements with the Roman slave: Toni Morrison, Howard Fast, Ralph Ellison, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Robert Montgomery Bird all feature, amongst a host of other writers. The chapter argues that Rome has proved to be a way of suturing the embodied...

...This chapter presents Gerald Sorin’s biography of Howard Fast, a renowned American novelist, to discuss Fast’s act of plagiarism. The book, Howard Fast: Life and Literature in the Left Lane, states that Fast became one of the most prolific American novelists, making hundred million...

... remain between the hero, his characterization, and his function in ancient and modern contexts. This chapter considers the history of turning Spartacus into a hero, before focusing on the 1960 film and the Howard Fast novel on which it was based. It explores how each presents Spartacus's heroic behaviour...

...This introductory chapter opens with Howard Fast's Tony and the Wonderful Door (1952), which Fast wrote and self-published when he was blacklisted from most media because of his association with the Communist Party. Fast's tale, about a boy who can travel through time, is likewise...