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Communism in Hollywood : the moral paradoxes of testimony, silence, and betrayal / Alan Casty.

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Main Author: Casty, Alan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Scarecrow Press, 2009.
Subjects:
United States. > Congress. > House. > Committee on Un-American Activities.
Motion picture industry > Political aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Communism and motion pictures > United States.
Blacklisting of entertainers > United States > History.
Blacklisting of authors > United States > History.
Screenwriters > Political activity > United States.
Motion picture producers and directors > Political activity > United States.
Communism > United States > History.
Blacklisting of authors.
Blacklisting of entertainers.
Communism.
Communism and motion pictures.
Motion picture industry > Political aspects.
Motion picture producers and directors > Political activity.
United States.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Before the Congressional hearings: the shaping of a culture of ideology, art, and conflict. Emblems of righteous ideology : the "trials" of Albert Maltz and Robert Rossen
  • The moral equation redefined : testimony and silence, decency and betrayal
  • The birth of the Hollywood party : the establishment of comintern control
  • The Hollywood party in peace and war : idealism, discipline, and reality
  • A climate of hostilities and betrayals : writers wars, street battles, and broken alliances
  • Robert Rossen : a life in the party and in the movies
  • The consequences of ideology : the emblematic battle of Body and soul
  • pt. II. The hearings begin: party discipline and the realities of the Soviet world. The first hearings, 1947 : the strategies, the combat, and the consequences
  • Testimony and silence : just a democratic political association and the secret world of communism
  • The lie deep within the silence : the CPUSA and obedience to the destructive policies of the Soviet Union
  • Testimony and silence : Jews, free speech, and the degrees of betrayal
  • pt. III. The time of the blacklist-and the times since. The time of turmoil, 1947 to 1951 : Hollywood besieged, crusades continue--Wallace, peace, and Korea
  • The time of trials : the Smith Act, the Rosenbergs, and Alger Hiss
  • Robert Rossen : testing of a moral life in Hollywood and in films
  • The time of turmoil, 1951 and after : the hearings resume, the real blacklist begins
  • What is behaving decently? Those who testified and named names
  • What is behaving decently? Those who did not testify, attacked, and remained silent
  • Hearings and filmmaking : the denial of value and the record on film
  • Testifying and filmmaking : attacks on individuals and the record on film
  • The moral crusade in its broader context : the myth of total McCarthyism.

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