Hide in plain sight : the Hollywood blacklistees in film and television, 1950-2002 / Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buhle, Paul, 1944-

Contributor:

Wagner, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blacklisting of entertainers--United States.

Blacklisting of entertainers.

United States.

Blacklisting of authors--United States.

Blacklisting of authors.

Communism--United States.

Communism.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 328 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First Palgrave Macmillan edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

"Hidden in Plain Sight" completes Buhle and Wagner's trilogy on the Hollywood blacklist. When the blacklistees were hounded out of Hollywood, some left for television where many worked on children's shows like "Rocky and Bullwinkle." A number wrote adult sitcoms such as "The Donna Reed Show," and M*A*S*H while some of them ultimately returned to Hollywood and made great films such as "Norma Rae," and "Midnight Cowboy." This is a thoughtful look at the aftermath of the horror that was the McCarthy period from two expert historians of the blacklist period.

Contents:

Introduction: Political Exiles and American Life vi

Chapter 1 Living Room Modernism 1

Chapter 2 Art of the Television Series 35

Chapter 3 Critique from the Margin 69

Chapter 4 The Neorealist Aesthetic 97

Chapter 5 Working under Cover 127

Chapter 6 The Long Climb Back 153

Chapter 7 The Hollywood Art Film 183

Chapter 8 The Lucid Outsider: Joseph Losey 215

Chapter 9 An Ending? 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-308) and index.

ISBN:

1403961441

OCLC:

51586908

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