Broadway and the blacklist

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"During the era known as McCarthyism, many motion picture and television creators were blacklisted for supposed communist ties. This book explores the role theatre played during this period, covering the formation of the Theatre Guild, the short-lived Federal Theatre Project, and the investigations of Broadway, by the House Committee on Un-American Activities"--

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Full title :Broadway and the blacklist / K. Kevyne Baar.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Place of Publication:Jefferson, North Carolina
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 205 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781476672595, 1476672598
oclc:on1049789793
LC Classification:PN1590.B5
Dewey Decimal:792.0973/0904

Prologue -- Theatre in America enters the 20th century -- Un-American theatre : the short life and death of the federal Theatre Project -- Finding subversives in Hollywood -- Making work while blacklisted -- What has my union done for me? SAG, AFTRA, and blacklisting -- Actors' equity association : the chronicle of an anti-blacklisting resolution -- Investigating Broadway : the 1955 HUAC hearings -- After the 1955 HUAC hearings : a life in the theatre goes on -- The name on the marquee : working on Broadway in the shadow of the blacklist -- Investigating Broadway...again : the 1958 HUAC hearings -- Epilogue.

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Blacklisting of authors Blacklisting of authors -- History -- 2… Blacklisting of entertainers Blacklisting of entertainers -- History… History Listes noires d'artistes du spectacle -… Listes noires d'auteurs -- Histoire -- … Theater -- Political aspects Theater -- Political aspects -- 20th ce… Théâtre -- Aspect politique -- 20e sièc… United States United States., Congress