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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 to be repeated endlessly during the anti-Communist investigations carried out by the House Committee on un-American Activities (HUAC) in the early 1950s. The refusal of ten members of the film industry to answ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Humphries, Reynold (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.