Show trial : Hollywood, HUAC, and the birth of the blacklist
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Show trial : Hollywood, HUAC, and the birth of the blacklist
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- Show trial : Hollywood, HUAC, and the birth of the blacklist
- Title remainder
- Hollywood, HUAC, and the birth of the blacklist
- Statement of responsibility
- Thomas Doherty
- Subject
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- Motion picture producers and directors -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Political activity | History -- 20th century
- United States, Congress | House | Committee on Un-American Activities
- Motion picture industry -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In 1947, the Cold War came to Hollywood. Over nine tumultuous days in October, the House Un-American Activities Committee held a notorious round of hearings into alleged Communist subversion in the movie industry. The blowback was profound: the major studios pledged to never again employ a known Communist or unrepentant fellow traveler. The declaration marked the onset of the blacklist era, a time when political allegiances, real or suspected, determined employment opportunities in the entertainment industry. Hundreds of artists were shown the door--or had it shut in their faces. In Show Trial, Thomas Doherty takes us behind the scenes at the first full-on media-political spectacle of the postwar era, a courtroom drama starring glamorous actors, colorful moguls, on-the-make congressmen, high-priced lawyers, single-minded investigators, and recalcitrant screenwriters, all recorded by newsreel cameras and broadcast over radio. Doherty explores the deep background to the hearings and details the theatrical elements of a proceeding that bridged the realms of entertainment and politics. He tells the story of the Hollywood Ten and the other witnesses, friendly and unfriendly, who testified; tracks the flight path of the Committee for the First Amendment, the delegation from Hollywood that descended on Washington to protest the hearings; and chronicles the implementation of the postwar blacklist. Show Trial is a rich, character-driven inquiry into how the HUAC hearings ignited the anti-Communist crackdown in Hollywood, providing a gripping new cultural history of one of the most influential events of the postwar era"--Publisher's description
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- Dewey number
- 791.430973
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PN1993.5.U6
- LC item number
- D53 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Film and culture
- Target audience
- adult
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