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Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist
By Doherty, Thomas
- ISBN
- 9780231187787 9780231547468
- Publisher
- Columbia Univ.
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Reviewed on April 1, 2018 | Arts and Humanities
"The face-off between Washington and Hollywood staged in October 1947 seems preordained, a perfect storm converging with the predictability of an end-reel clinch." So says author Doherty (American studies, Brandeis Univ.; Hollywood and Hitler, 1933–1939), who cleverly frames the history of the infamous anti-Communist House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings as a media-friendly production, with a cast of characters acting...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
