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Author Doherty, Thomas Patrick, author.

Title Show trial : Hollywood, HUAC, and the birth of the blacklist / Thomas Doherty.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 406 pages) : illustrations.
text file
Series Film and culture
Film and culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents How the popular front became unpopular -- Hollywood's war record -- The preservation of American ideals -- The magic of a Hollywood dateline -- Smearing Hollywood with the brush of communism -- Showtime -- Lovefest -- Friendlies, cooperative and uncooperative -- Hollywood's finest -- Doldrums -- Crashing page 1 -- Contempt -- $64 questions and no answers -- Jewish questions -- The curtain drops -- The Waldorf and other declarations -- Blacklists and casualty lists -- Not only victims.
Summary "In 1947, the Cold War came to Hollywood. Over 9 days in October 1947, the House Committee on Un-American Activities held a notorious round of hearings into alleged Communist subversion in Hollywood. The immediate blowback from the October hearings was profound and long-lived. On November 25, 1947, the major Hollywood studios pledged never again to employ a known Communist. The declaration marked the formal onset of the blacklist era, a two-decade-long purgatory during which political allegiances, real or suspected, determined employment opportunities in the entertainment industry. At the studios and the networks, hundreds of artists were shown the door or had it shut in their faces. Doherty tells the story of the first media-political spectacle of the postwar era, a courtroom drama starring actors, moguls, congressmen, lawyers, investigators, and screenwriters, all recorded under the lights of the newsreel cameras and broadcast over radio. After assuming increased cultural prominence during World War II, Doherty explains, 'the screen had become, in its maturity, integrated with the whole fabric of the national, and international affairs, with social, political and economic involvements, ' leading to the centrality of Hollywood in Washington politics in the postwar era. Depicting this shift through testimonies and detailed public records, he provides a rich, character-driven cultural history that focuses on how and why the HUAC trial unfolded and ignited the anti-Communist strain in Cold War culture, serving as one of the most influential events of the postwar era"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
USA Committee on Un-American Activities.
Motion picture industry -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Motion picture industry -- Political aspects.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Motion picture industry.
Communism and motion pictures -- United States.
Communism and motion pictures.
Blacklisting of entertainers -- United States -- History.
Blacklisting of entertainers.
Blacklisting of authors -- United States -- History.
Blacklisting of authors.
Screenwriters -- Political activity -- United States.
Screenwriters.
Political participation.
Motion picture producers and directors -- Political activity -- United States.
Motion picture producers and directors -- Political activity.
Motion picture producers and directors.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Doherty, Thomas Patrick. Show trial. New York : Columbia University Press, [2018] 9780231187787 (DLC) 2017046963 (OCoLC)1013737468
ISBN 9780231547468 (electronic book)
0231547463 (electronic book)
9780231187787 (cloth)
0231187785 (cloth)