Hollywood traitors : blacklisted screenwriters : agents of Stalin, allies of Hitler / Allan H. Ryskind

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Object Details

Author
Ryskind, Allan H
Contents
The Stalinist Ten -- The birth of the Screen Writers Guild -- "Communism ... must be fought for" -- Anti-fascist, or pro-Stalin? -- The Hollywood Anti-Nazi League -- The pro-Hitler Congress -- Red and brown sabotage -- The American peace mobilization goes to war -- Red propaganda in films -- Blockade: the party targets Spain -- Ninotchka slips through a red filter -- Red heyday in Hollywood -- Mission for Stalin -- The great escape -- The anti-Communists weigh in -- The Cold War begins -- Screenwriters embrace a comintern agent -- HUAC -- More friendly witnesses -- Phil Dunne's strange crusade -- The writers self-destruct -- Portents of disaster -- The screen writer: red as a rose -- Emmet Lavery's critical turnaround -- The blacklist begins -- Game, set, match -- Herb Sorrell and the CSU strike -- Reagan outwits the reds -- The silencing of Albert Maltz -- Dalton Trumbo, Communist conformist -- From pacifist to holy warrior -- Lillian Hellman: scarlet woman, scarlet lies -- Donald Ogden Stewart: Hollywood revolutionary -- John Howard Lawson: the CP's "grand pooh-bah" -- Elia Kazan deserved his Oscar -- Arthur Miller: was he or wasn't he? -- The curious case of Michael Blankfort -- Reds on the blacklist -- Rehabilitating ex-reds -- Red reminiscences -- Hollywood today
Summary
"Exposes [what the author sees as] the ugly truth about the Communists blacklisted from the film industry. Too often, the 'Hollywood Ten' brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee are memorialized as victims of an unjust witch-hunt and heroes who stood up for free speech. [He claims that] the truth is shocking: not only did these supposed liberal paragons adore Josef Stalin and take their orders directly from the Communist Party, but they also sympathized with Adolf Hitler"--Amazon.com.
2015
20th century
Type
Books
Physical description
xxi, 506 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Place
United States
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
Motion picture industry--Political aspects--History
Blacklisting of authors--History
Screenwriters--Political activity
Communism and motion pictures--History
Record ID
siris_sil_1048992
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0