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Hollywood's blacklists : a political and cultural history / Reynold Humphries.

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'Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?' That question was asked repeatedly during the anti-Communist investigations of the House Committee on un-American Activities (HUAC) in the early 1950s. When ten members of the film industry refused to answer, they were bl...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Humphries, Reynold (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Motion picture industry > United States.
Blacklisting of entertainers > United States.
Blacklisting of authors > United States.
Communism > United States.
Blacklisting of authors.
Blacklisting of entertainers.
Communism.
Motion picture industry.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The background
  • Drawing up the battle lines. Introduction
  • Hollywood and the union question
  • The war years, 1939-1945
  • Hollywood strikes, the right strikes back
  • From the hot war to the Cold War. The hearings of 1947
  • None shall escape: the hearings of 1951-1953
  • The anti-communist crusade on the screen
  • Life (and death) on the blacklist
  • Conclusion.

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