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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782129703321

Autore

Barranger Milly S

Titolo

Unfriendly witnesses [[electronic resource] ] : gender, theater, and film in the McCarthy era / / Milly S. Barranger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-299-45471-2

0-8093-8733-6

1-4356-6366-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Theater in the Americas

Disciplina

792.082/09045

Soggetti

Actresses - Political activity - United States

Blacklisting of entertainers - United States - History - 20th century

Women dramatists, American - 20th century - Political activity

Blacklisting of authors - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-185) and index.

Nota di contenuto

McCarthyism -- Billie Dawn goes to Washington: Judy Holliday -- Death by innuendo: Mady Christians -- Unfriendly witness: Anne Revere -- The defiant ones: Lilian Hellman and Dorothy Parker -- Guilt by association: Margaret Webster -- The blacklist is on fire: Kim Hunter.

Sommario/riassunto

Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era examines the experiences of seven prominent women of stage and screen whose lives and careers were damaged by the McCarthy-era "witch hunts" for Communists and Communist sympathizers in the entertainment industry: Judy Holliday, Anne Revere, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Margaret Webster, Mady Christians, and Kim Hunter. The effects on women of the anti-Communist crusades that swept the nation between 1947 and 1962 have been largely overlooked by cultural critics and historians, who have instead f