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Hollywood's Blacklists: A Political and Cultural History Book

An introduction to what blacklisting was, when and how it took place and under what circumstances, concentrating on the main events in the film community and placing them in their political and cultural context.Read More

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    'Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?' That question was to be repeated endlessly during the anti-Communist investigations carried out by the House Committee on un-American Activities (HUAC) in the early 1950s. The refusal of ten members of the film industry to answer the question in 1947 led to the decision by studio bosses to fire them and never to hire known Communists in the future. The Hearings led to scores of actors, writers and directors being named as Communists or sympathisers. All were blacklisted and fired. Hollywood's Blacklists is a history of the political and cultural factors relevant to understanding the why and the how of the various investigations of the alleged Communist infiltration of Hollywood. What was HUAC? What propaganda role did films play during World War II and the Cold War? What values were at stake in the confrontation between Left and Right that saw the former so resoundingly defeated and expelled from Hollywood? Answers to these and other questions are offered via analyses of the motives of the various players and of the tactics deployed by HUAC to reward collaboration and punish dissent. Key themes include: *Trade unionism in Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s *Anti-Semitism and Nazism, Hollywood anti-Nazi propaganda films and the patriotic war effort *The Cold War and concomitant hostility to all dissidence *The consequences for Hollywood: the collapse of the liberal-Communist consensus; naming names; exile for many and the use of 'fronts' by blacklisted writers.

  • 0748624562
  • 9780748624560
  • Reynold Humphries
  • 12 April 2010
  • Edinburgh University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 192
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