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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Barranger, Milly S.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
United States. > Congress. > House. > Committee on Un-American Activities
United States. > Congress. > House. > Committee on Un-American Activities.
Blacklisting of entertainers
Blacklisting of authors
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
Listes noires d'auteurs > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Listes noires d'artistes du spectacle > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Actrices > Activite politique > États-Unis.
Blacklisting of authors > United States > History > 20th century.
Women dramatists, American > 20th century > Political activity.
Blacklisting of entertainers > United States > History > 20th century.
Actresses > Political activity > United States.
United States
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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
Description matérielle:1 online resource (224 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780809387335

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