The Inquisition in Hollywood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Inquisition in Hollywood write by Larry Ceplair. This book was released on 1983. The Inquisition in Hollywood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The Inquisition in Hollywood examines the suppression of radical political activity in the film industry from the days of the Great Depression through the tumultuous House Un-American Activities Committee era to the waning days of the infamous blacklist." "Although this thirty-year period of American history is marked by widespread targeting of leftists in all areas of life, those in the film industry - predominately screenwriters - were considered to be in positions of great potential indoctrinating power, and found themselves under intense scrutiny as the cold war hysteria mounted. Ceplair and Englund trace the history of political struggle in Hollywood back to the formation of the Screen Writers Guild in 1933. Many of the blacklisted filmmakers were members of the Communist Party and all of the graylisted filmmakers had expressed their sympathy with progressive (mainly anti-fascist) causes."--BOOK JACKET.
The Inquisition in Hollywood
The Inquisition in Hollywood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Inquisition in Hollywood write by Larry Ceplair. This book was released on 2003. The Inquisition in Hollywood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Although this thirty-year period of American history is marked by widespread targeting of leftists in all areas of life, those in the film industry - predominately screenwriters - were considered to be in positions of great potential indoctrinating power, and found themselves under intense scrutiny as the cold war hysteria mounted. Ceplair and Englund trace the history of political struggle in Hollywood back to the formation of the Screen Writers Guild in 1933. Many of the blacklisted filmmakers were members of the Communist Party and all of the graylisted filmmakers had expressed their sympathy with progressive (mainly anti-fascist) causes."--BOOK JACKET.
The Time of the Toad
The Time of the Toad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Time of the Toad write by Dalton Trumbo. This book was released on 2011-09-01. The Time of the Toad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Communism in Hollywood
Communism in Hollywood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Communism in Hollywood write by Alan Casty. This book was released on 2009-08-03. Communism in Hollywood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Much has been written about the history of Communism in America, including the Party's appeal to many in the Hollywood community of the 1930s and 40s. While several books have offered standard accounts of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings and the blacklist in the entertainment industry, Alan Casty provides a fresh and provocative perspective. In Communism in Hollywood: The Moral Paradoxes of Testimony, Silence, and Betrayal, Casty challenges the absolute dualisms of the period: cowardly informers and heroic martyrs. Drawing on newly available material, Casty illustrates the control by the international Communist movement and the role of the Hollywood Communists themselves in fomenting the intense hostilities of the period. Casty juxtaposes the actions and statements of those who testified and 'named names' before HUAC with Communists who refused to testify and remained silent about the atrocities of the Soviet Union. By providing a scrupulous account of the full scope of the Communist Party in Hollywood, this book presents a more accurate picture of the moral quandaries faced during this dark period in American history.
The Inquisition in Hollywood
The Inquisition in Hollywood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Inquisition in Hollywood write by Larry Ceplair. This book was released on 1980. The Inquisition in Hollywood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The blacklist. The Hollywood Ten. These words, evocative as they are, do not reveal that, from 1933 through 1947, Hollywood was the focal point of progressive political activity in the United States. Nor do they convey that the imprisonments and blacklistings were not an isolated outbreak of Cold War hysteria, but rather the successful conclusion of two decades of efforts by conservative and reactionary forces to curtail political activism in Hollywood. In the thirties and forties, Hollywood activists--Lillian Hellman, Ring Lardner, Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Dalton Trumbo, among others--took part in countless political battles. They founded guilds, aided anti-fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War, and helped elect progressive candidates to public office. But progressives were unwelcome in an industry dominated by the last tycoons--especially since the industry was America's most glamorous and visible. With the outbreak of the Cold War, and the fear of anything labeled "Communist" that it engendered, the right wing finally managed, by means of the blacklist, to bring thought control to Hollywood--and to America. This book tells the real story of how, for a brief time and against immense obstacles, a group of dedicated men and women transformed Hollywood from a glamorous symbol of unreality into the center of social and political consciousness in the United States.--Adapted from dust jacket.
