Hollywood's blacklists a political and cultural history
'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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
2008.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31515046*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
