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Autore |
Barranger Milly S |
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Titolo |
Unfriendly witnesses [[electronic resource] ] : gender, theater, and film in the McCarthy era / / Milly S. Barranger |
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Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2008 |
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1-299-45471-2 |
0-8093-8733-6 |
1-4356-6366-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-185) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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