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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817487703321

Autore

Dick Bernard F.

Titolo

Radical innocence : a critical study of the Hollywood Ten / / Bernard F. Dick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2009

©1989

ISBN

0-8131-4771-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Disciplina

812/.03/09

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



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