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Hollywood Screenwriters Guild Had A Left Leaning Tradition All Through
By Larry Ceplair Screenwriters have always been the sharpest thorn in the side of movie executives, the motion picture labour union with the greatest propensity to strike. The current walkout is their eighth, not including a threatened strike in 1941 that secured their first collective bargaining agreement with the studios.
The 1950s Hollywood Blacklist Was an Assault on Free Expression
Screenwriters have always been the sharpest thorn in the side of movie executives, the motion picture labor union with the greatest propensity to strike. The current walkout is their eighth, not including a threatened strike in 1941 that secured their first collective bargaining agreement with the studios.
How Hollywood Thrived Through the Red Scare
On December 2nd, 1954, Joseph McCarthy was censured by the U.S. Senate, a punishment for what many considered a reckless crusade against communists. McCarthy’s crusade had largely focused on the U.S. State Department and military, which he said were compromised by communist influence at the height of the Cold War. But the culture of suspicion he nurtured ended up targeting suspected communists in Hollywood as well.
Ann Coulter’s perverted history: The right’s latest obsessive, venomous half-truths
The news of a movie about the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo has poked a stick into the nest of right-wing wasps, who have responded with their usual venomous inaccuracies, distortions and half-truths. Ann Coulter decided to attack the lead actor in the movie (“Bryan Cranston: From Meth Cook to Hitler Apologist),” while at the same time promoting fellow anti-Communist Allan H.
The best books about the Hollywood blacklist
Home Film industry books Brian's list Who am I? Years ago, as part of my research, I interviewed Elia Kazan and Abraham Polonsky, two key figures in the blacklist story, and two men who were on different sides in terms of how they responded to the postwar Congressional investigations.
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