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