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Actors on Red Alert
Anthony Slide
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Description for Actors on Red Alert
Hardback. 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. Series: The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series. Num Pages: 198 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJC; APB; HBJK; HBLW; JPVN; JPVR; KNTC; KNTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
Series
The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810836495
SKU
V9780810836495
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Ref
99-15
About Anthony Slide
Anthony Slide has published many books and articles on the performing arts. He is a highly respected scholar of film history, and has authored such books as The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry (1998), On Actors and Acting (1998), and Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian (1997).
Reviews for Actors on Red Alert
...the five actors—Phil Brown, Rose Hobart, Marsha Hunt, Marc Lawrence, and Doris Nolan—form interesting case studies helped along through Slide's gentle prompting, utilising the blacklisting and graylisting as the bond holding each of the lives together...both vivid and invaluable...a valuable resource to students and enthusiasts alike...What is clear from Slide's patient and intelligent questioning is the vibrancy of the memories ... Read more