Actors on red alert : career interviews with five actors and actresses affected by the blacklist / Anthony Slide.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Slide, Anthony.

Series:

• Filmmakers series ; no. 67.
• Filmmakers series ; 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Blacklisting of entertainers--United States.
• Blacklisting of entertainers.
• United States.
• Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Interviews.
• Motion picture actors and actresses.
• Actors--United States--Interviews.
• United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.

Local Subjects:

• Actors--United States--Interviews.
• United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.

Genre:

• Interviews.

Physical Description:

173 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1999.

Summary:

The anti-Communist hysteria that began in the 1930s was further empowered in 1938 when the House of Representatives established the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Soon there-after, the creation of the blacklist in the late 1940s brought the Hollywood film and television community into the fold. Provocatively capturing the controversy and sentiments surrounding this period of political imbalance, Actors on Red Alert explores the repercussions of the blacklist through career interviews with five prominent actors and actresses.

Notes:

• Filmographies: pages 137-166.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0810836491

OCLC:

40813462