Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American ActivitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Hearings Regarding the Communist Infiltration of the Motion Picture Industry
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American ActivitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Communist Infiltration of Hollywood Motion-picture Industry
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American ActivitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description
Ayn Rand and Song of Russia
Author: Robert MayhewPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810852761
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
In October 1947, more than twenty years after leaving Russia, Ayn Rand testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), which was investigating communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. The focus of that testimony was Song of Russia, a 1944 pro-Soviet film that Rand decried for its unrealistic, absurdly flattering portrait of life in the communist country. Ayn Rand scholar Robert Mayhew focuses on this controversial period of American and Hollywood history by examining both the film and the furor surrounding Rand's HUAC testimony. His analysis provides the first detailed history of any of the pro-Soviet films to come out of 1940s Hollywood. Mayhew begins by offering a brief synopsis of the MGM film, followed by an account of its production, as well as its reception. Most significantly, Mayhew analyzes Rand's appearance before HUAC and discusses the response to her much-maligned testimony. By carefully scrutinizing this one episode in the history of communism and anti-communism in 1940s Hollywood, Mayhew presents a more accurate picture of those times and the issues surrounding them. His study allows for a re-evaluation of the role of communism in Hollywood, the nature of the HUAC, and even the Hollywood Ten. This book should be of interest to anyone interested in the life and thought of Ayn Rand, as well as to anyone interested in the history of Hollywood communism and of American film.
J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies
Author: John SbardellatiPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801464684
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Between 1942 and 1958, J. Edgar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted a sweeping and sustained investigation of the motion picture industry to expose Hollywood’s alleged subversion of "the American Way" through its depiction of social problems, class differences, and alternative political ideologies. FBI informants (their names still redacted today) reported to Hoover’s G-men on screenplays and screenings of such films as Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), noting that "this picture deliberately maligned the upper class attempting to show that people who had money were mean and despicable characters." The FBI’s anxiety over this film was not unique; it extended to a wide range of popular and critical successes, including The Grapes of Wrath (1940), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Crossfire (1947) and On the Waterfront (1954). In J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies, John Sbardellati provides a new consideration of Hollywood’s history and the post–World War II Red Scare. In addition to governmental intrusion into the creative process, he details the efforts of left-wing filmmakers to use the medium to bring social problems to light and the campaigns of their colleagues on the political right, through such organizations as the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, to prevent dissemination of "un-American" ideas and beliefs. Sbardellati argues that the attack on Hollywood drew its motivation from a sincerely held fear that film content endangered national security by fostering a culture that would be at best apathetic to the Cold War struggle, or, at its worst, conducive to communism at home. Those who took part in Hollywood’s Cold War struggle, whether on the left or right, shared one common trait: a belief that the movies could serve as engines for social change. This strongly held assumption explains why the stakes were so high and, ultimately, why Hollywood became one of the most important ideological battlegrounds of the Cold War.
Report
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1874
Book Description
Investigation of Un-American Activities in the United States
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American ActivitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Cumulative Index to Publications of the Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1954
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American ActivitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
Book Description
Naming Names
Author: Victor S. NavaskyPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480436216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 805
Book Description
Winner of the National Book Award: The definitive history of Joe McCarthy, the Hollywood blacklist, and HUAC explores the events behind the hit film Trumbo. Drawing on interviews with over one hundred and fifty people who were called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee—including Elia Kazan, Ring Lardner Jr., and Arthur Miller—award-winning author Victor S. Navasky reveals how and why the blacklists were so effective and delves into the tragic and far-reaching consequences of Joseph McCarthy’s witch hunts. A compassionate, insightful, and even-handed examination of one of our country’s darkest hours, Naming Names is at once a morality play and a fascinating window onto a searing moment in American cultural and political history.
Decision of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Re the United States V. Leon Josephson (Majority and Dissenting Opinions)
Author: United States. Court of Appeals (2nd Circuit)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
Only Victims
Author: Robert VaughnPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 0879100818
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
In a dramatic change of role, the noted television and film star has written a vivid and incisive account of the House Committee on Un-American Activities' probe of the entertainment industry from 1938 to 1958. Formed to investigate alleged subversives, by the late fifties the committee had succeeded in ruining the careers and sometimes the lives of many of Hollywood and Broadway's top writers and performers. Quoting generously from transcripts of its hearings, Vaughn shows how the committee's primary purpose was punitive rather than legislative, and concludes that its most serious damage to American theatre and film is not easily documented: the loss of all the words never written or spoken because of the impact - and the fear - of the committee's misdeeds.