Hollywood Blacklist
Title: Hollywood Blacklist
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 1741 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Hollywood Blacklist
Category: /Law & Government
Details: Words: 1741 | Pages: 6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Just a little over fifty years ago, during the late 1940's and throughout the 1950's, there was a great fear of Communism in America and abroad. The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was created in 1938 as a means to investigate and weed out Communists and Communist supporters from American society. Its first major attack was on the Hollywood film industry. Blacklisting of Hollywood writers, actors, producers, directors and others suspected of Communist affiliations began
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Red: The Autobiography of Lester Cole. Palo Alto, CA: Ramparts Press, 1981.
Dick, Bernard F. Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1989.
Georgakas, Dan. Hollywood Blacklist, http://www. english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/blacklist.html
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The Front. Dir. Walter Bernstein. Perf. Woody Allen. 1982.