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Hide in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950-2002

Hide in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950-2002

Buhle, Paul
Wagner, Dave

Paperback

Television20th Century United States HistoryFilm Studies

Publisher Price: $25.00

ISBN10: 1403966842
ISBN13: 9781403966841
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: Dec 1 2004
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
Hide in Plain Sight offers a powerful examination of the effects of Hollywood's blacklist era, taking up the question of how blacklistees fared after they were driven out of the mainstream. A good number entered careers in television, with many finding work in children's and family programs, writing for shows like Rocky and Bullwinkle, Lassie, and Flipper. Many also wrote adult sitcoms such as Hogan's Heroes, The Donna Reed Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, M*A*S*H, Maude, and All in the Family. Ultimately, many returned to Hollywood in the sixties and seventies to work creatively on films that contained a dose of the radical politics found in communism, films that influenced the creative outburst of that decade. The list of impressive films from the survivors of HUAC includes Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, and Midnight Cowboy. Hide in Plain Sight completes Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner's trilogy, which includes Tender Comrades (1998) and Radical Hollywood (2002). Together these books provide a thorough and disturbing portrait of the McCarthy era's impact on an important aspect of American culture and society.

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