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The inquisition in Hollywood : politics in the film community, 1930-60 / Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund.
- Title
- The inquisition in Hollywood : politics in the film community, 1930-60 / Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund.
- Author
- Ceplair, Larry.
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2003.
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- Additional Authors
- Englund, Steven.
- Description
- xxix, 544 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "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."--Jacket.
- "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."
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [487]-514) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. The Screenwriter in Hollywood -- 2. The Founding of the Screen Writers Guild, 1933 -- 3. The Communist Party in Hollywood: Intellectual Ferment Brutalized by Politics -- 4. Thee Great Popular Front, 1936-39 -- 5. The Disintegration of the Popular Front -- 6. The Phony War and the Resurrected Popular Front, 1940-44 -- 7. Prelude to Repression, 1944-47 -- 8. The Congressional Hearings of October 1947 -- 9. The Influence of Hollywood Communists on American Films and American Politics, 1930-47 -- 10. The Hollywood Ten: From the Blacklist to Prison, November 1947-June 1950 -- 11. Devastation: HUAC Returns to Hollywood, 1951-53 -- 12. Exile and Return: the Aftermath, 1953 to Present -- Afterword to the 1983 Paperback.
- ISBN
- 0252071417 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2002045407
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library