Unfriendly Witnesses : Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barranger, Milly S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • McCarthyism
  • Billie Dawn goes to Washington: Judy Holliday
  • Death by innuendo: Mady Christians
  • Unfriendly witness: Anne Revere
  • The defiant ones: Lilian Hellman and Dorothy Parker
  • Guilt by association: Margaret Webster
  • The blacklist is on fire: Kim Hunter.

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