| Actors on Red Alert: Career Interviews with Five Actors and Actresses Affected by the Blacklist Contributor(s): Slide, Anthony (Author) |
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ISBN: 0810836491 ISBN-13: 9780810836495 Publisher: Scarecrow Press OUR PRICE: $78.21 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 1999 Annotation: Provocatively capturing the controversy and sentiments surrounding this period of political imbalance, Actors on Red Alert explores the repercussions of the 1940s blacklist through career interviews with five prominent actors and actresses. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 99019675 |
| Series: Scarecrow Filmmakers |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.81" W x 8.87" (0.79 lbs) 198 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The anti-Communist hysteria that began in the 1930s was further empowered in 1938 when the House of Representatives established the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities. Soon thereafter, the creation of the blacklist in the late 1940s brought the Hollywood film and television community into the fold. Provocatively capturing the controversy and sentiments surrounding this period of political imbalance, Actors on Red Alert explores the repercussions of the blacklist through career interviews with five prominent actors and actresses. |