The Final Victim of the Blacklist : John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten /

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Before he attained notoriety as Dean of the Hollywood Ten - the blacklisted screenwriters and directors persecuted because of their varying ties to the Communist Party - John Howard Lawson had become one of the most brilliant, successful, and intellectual screenwriters on the Hollywood scene in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Horne, Gerald
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Lawson, John Howard, > 1894-1977.
Theater.
Screenwriters.
Motion picture industry.
Dramatists, American.
Communism and literature.
Blacklisting of authors.
Communism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
DRAMA > American.
communism.
Communisme.
Cinema > Industrie > Californie > Los Angeles > Histoire.
Communisme et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Listes noires d'auteurs > États-Unis.
Scenaristes > États-Unis > Biographies.
Dramaturges americains > 20e siecle > Biographies.
Communism
Motion picture industry > California > Los Angeles > History.
Theater > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Communism and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Blacklisting of authors > United States.
Screenwriters > United States > Biography.
Dramatists, American > 20th century > Biography.
United States.
New York (State) > New York.
California > Los Angeles.
Biographies.
History.
Biography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings
  • Toward commitment
  • Hollywood
  • From Hollywood to Broadway
  • Commitment
  • Theory and practice
  • Struggle
  • Fighting
  • and writing
  • Writing
  • and fighting
  • Red scare rising
  • Inquisition
  • Jailed for ideas
  • "Blacklisted"
  • The fall of red Hollywood
  • Conclusion.

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