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Radical innocence : a critical study of the Hollywood Ten / Bernard F. Dick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dick, Bernard F., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Screenwriters--United States--Biography.
- Screenwriters.
- Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- Motion picture plays, American--History and criticism.
- Motion picture plays, American.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles.
- Motion picture industry.
- Blacklisting of authors--United States.
- Blacklisting of authors.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Biography.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.).
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Biography.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographies.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-9328-1
- 0-8131-4771-9
- OCLC:
- 581477242
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