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Dick Bernard F. |
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Radical innocence : a critical study of the Hollywood Ten / / Bernard F. Dick |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2009 |
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©1989 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (281 p.) |
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Screenwriters - United States |
Motion picture producers and directors - United States |
Motion picture plays, American - History and criticism |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Motion picture industry - California - Los Angeles |
Blacklisting of authors - United States |
Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Biography |
Los Angeles (Calif.) Biography |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Samuel Ornitz: Mazel Tov! to the World; 2. Lester Cole: Hollywood Red; 3. John Howard Lawson: Hollywood Commissar; 4. Herbert Biberman: The Salt That Lost Its Savor; 5. Albert Maltz: Asking of Writers; 6. Alvah Bessie: The Eternal Brigadier; Illustrations; 7. Adrian Scott: A Decent Man; 8. Edward Dmytryk: To Work, Perchance to Dream; 9. Ring Lardner, Jr.: Radical Wit; 10. Dalton Trumbo: The Bull That Broke the Blacklist; Epilogue; Chronologies, Bibliographies, and Filmographies; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K |
LM; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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On October 30, 1947, the House Committee on Un-American Activities concluded the first round of hearings on the allege Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. Hollywood was ordered to ""clean its own house,"" and ten witnesses who had refused to answer |
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questions about their membership in the Screen Writers Guild and the Communist party eventually received contempt citations. By 1950 the Hollywood Ten, as they quickly became known, were serving prison sentences ranging from six months to a year. Since that time the group, which included writers, directors, and a producer, have be |
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