Show Trial
Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist
- Editore:
Columbia University Press
- Collana:
- Film and Culture Series
- EAN:
9780231187787
- ISBN:
0231187785
- Pagine:
- 424
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione Show Trial
In Show Trial, Thomas Doherty takes us behind the scenes at the first full-on media-political spectacle of the postwar era, a courtroom drama starring glamorous actors, colorful moguls, on-the-make congressmen, high-priced lawyers, single-minded investigators, and recalcitrant screenwriters, all recorded by newsreel cameras and broadcast over radio. Doherty explores the deep background to the hearings and details the theatrical elements of a proceeding that bridged the realms of entertainment and politics. He tells the story of the Hollywood Ten and the other witnesses, friendly and unfriendly, who testified; tracks the flight path of the Committee for the First Amendment, the delegation from Hollywood that descended on Washington to protest the hearings; and chronicles the implementation of the postwar blacklist.