The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-9588-9 (ISBN)
The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist: Seventy-Five Years Later offers new insights on the origins of the blacklist, the characteristics of those blacklisted, and the probability of future proscriptions of the blacklist type.
Seventy-five years ago, the Hollywood blacklist ruined lives, stifled creativity, and sent waves of proscription and censorship throughout United States culture. When the Hollywood Ten refused to answer the questions of the House Committee on Un-American Activities about their membership in the Communist Party, they were sentenced to prison, the five who were under contract were fired by their studios, and all were blacklisted from reemployment until they "purged themselves of their communist taint." By the 1950s, this blacklist publicly stigmatized nearly three hundred other Americans in the entertainment industry who invoked the First and Fifth Amendments in their refusal to apologize for their Communist ties or provide the names of other members. Dozens of others were graylisted, as the result of rumors.
The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist: Seventy-Five Years Later offers new insights on the origins of the blacklist, the characteristics of those blacklisted, and the probability of future proscriptions of the blacklist type. Author Larry Ceplair draws on previously published work while introducing new material to vigorously recount the events that took place between the US government, Hollywood unions, and motion picture studios. Ceplair thoroughly examines the role of Jewish identity in many anti-communist efforts—a concept that has never been fully examined by scholars - and analyzes the actions of subpoenaed witnesses who were forced to choose between cooperating with the House Committee or joining the blacklist. This fascinating book is an illuminating examination of a dark period in American history and the fragility of our rights to free speech and due process. The book includes a comprehensive annotated bibliography and filmography.
Larry Ceplair is the author of Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical, The Marxist and the Movies: A Biography of Paul Jarrico, and Anti-Communism in Twentieth-Century America: A Critical History.
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Looking Back_x000D_
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Jewish Anti-Communism in Hollywood and the Motion-Picture Blacklist_x000D_
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A Debate over the Politics and Morality of Cooperative and Uncooperative Witnesses Who Testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1947-1953_x000D_
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Dashielle Hammett: The White-Haired Communist Ghost of Hollywood_x000D_
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Isobel Lennart and the Dynamics of Informing in Hollywood_x000D_
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Ring Lardner, Jr. and the Hollywood Blacklist_x000D_
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Shedding Light on Darkness at High Noon_x000D_
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Looking Ahead_x000D_
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Annotated Bibliography_x000D_
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Blacklist Articles and Reviews by Larry Ceplair_x000D_
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Acknowledgements
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.08.2022 |
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| Verlagsort | Lexington |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8131-9588-8 / 0813195888 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8131-9588-9 / 9780813195889 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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