Unfriendly witnesses : gender, theater, and film in the McCarthy era / Milly S. Barranger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barranger, Milly S.

Series:

Theater in the Americas.

Theater in the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Actresses--Political activity--United States.

Actresses.

Blacklisting of entertainers--United States--History--20th century.

Blacklisting of entertainers.

Women dramatists, American--20th century--Political activity.

Women dramatists, American.

Blacklisting of authors--United States--History--20th century.

Blacklisting of authors.

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era examines the experiences of seven prominent women of stage and screen whose lives and careers were damaged by the McCarthy-era "witch hunts" for Communists and Communist sympathizers in the entertainment industry: Judy Holliday, Anne Revere, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Margaret Webster, Mady Christians, and Kim Hunter. The effects on women of the anti-Communist crusades that swept the nation between 1947 and 1962 have been largely overlooked by cultural critics and historians, who have instead f

Contents:

McCarthyism

Billie Dawn goes to Washington: Judy Holliday

Death by innuendo: Mady Christians

Unfriendly witness: Anne Revere

The defiant ones: Lilian Hellman and Dorothy Parker

Guilt by association: Margaret Webster

The blacklist is on fire: Kim Hunter.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-185) and index.

ISBN:

1-299-45471-2

0-8093-8733-6

1-4356-6366-7

OCLC:

856870447