Broadway and the blacklist /

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 Theater Guild, the short-lived Federal Theater Project and the investigations of...

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Main Author: Baar, K. Kevyne, 1946- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
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505 0 |a 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. 
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