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Unfriendly witnesses : gender, theater, and film in the McCarthy era /
Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era examines the experiences of seven prominent women of stage and screen whose lives and careers were damaged by the McCarthy-era "witch hunts" for Communists and Communist sympathizers in the entertainment industry: Judy Hol...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Theater in the Americas.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era examines the experiences of seven prominent women of stage and screen whose lives and careers were damaged by the McCarthy-era "witch hunts" for Communists and Communist sympathizers in the entertainment industry: Judy Holliday, Anne Revere, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Margaret Webster, Mady Christians, and Kim Hunter. The effects on women of the anti-Communist crusades that swept the nation between 1947 and 1962 have been largely overlooked by cultural critics and historians, who have instead f |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 197 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-185) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781435663664 1435663667 0809328763 9780809328765 9780809387335 0809387336 1299454712 9781299454712 |