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Books : Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony's Long Romance with the LeftIn association with Amazon.com List Price: $17.95 Amazon.com's Price: $16.15 You Save: $1.80 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 3 to 5 weeks
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 384.80979494 EAN: 9781594031465 ISBN: 1594031460 Label: Encounter Books Manufacturer: Encounter Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 296 Publication Date: July 25, 2006 Publisher: Encounter Books Studio: Encounter Books Sales Rank: 112474 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Until now, Hollywood's political history has been dominated by a steady stream of films and memoirs decrying the nightmare of the Red Scare. But Ronald and Allis Radosh show that the real drama of that era lay in the story of the movie stars, directors and especially screenwriters who joined the Communist Party or traveled in its orbit, and made the Party the focus of their political and social lives. The authors' most controversial discovery is that during the investigations of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the Hollywood Reds themselves were beset by doubts and disagreements about their disloyalty to America, and their own treatment by the Communist Party. Abandoned by their old CP allies, they faced the Blacklist alone. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - An important analysis filling many gaps.The Hollywood Blacklist is a story which has long been perpetuated by the film industry into popular culture, but RED STAR OVER HOLLYWOOD: THE FILM COLONY'S LONG ROMANCE WITH THE LEFT takes a different approach then most, documenting the large number of movie stars who did join the Communist Party and as a result had an impact on filmmaking trends. Material from the papers of Dalton Trumbo and other Hollywood insiders examine the concurrent growth of Communism through the 1930s and war years and ... Read More Rating: - Exceptional and EducationalOver the years I have read many books on the Red Scare in Hollywood and could never quite understand the attraction to communism. This book does the best job of describing the issues, the attraction to communism and documentation of actual plans by the communist party concerning their intent to influence films. In reading many past books, the authors never quite expressed WHY they were communists. In fact, many of the books never mentioned whether they were incorrectly persecuted or whether they ... Read More Rating: - Is it a witch-hunt if the witches are real?While George Clooney was simultaneously thumping his chest and patting his back for how he and his "community" are proudly out of touch with mainstream America, I was engaged in the rather more edifying exercise of reading this great new book by Ronald and Allis Radosh. For readers with an interest in the context of the culture-clash between the "Hollywood elite" and the poor benighted people who buy movie tickets and DVDs, this book is an excellent resource. I say the "context" of the ... Read More Rating:  - Hollywood's Darkest Hour, the Years of the Blacklist.This book has the same title as a pamphlet series on Communism written by Oliver Carlson and, though the authors claim to have used recently released records of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, I would expect it to have derived mainly from this "Red Star Over Hollywood" series. "The Red Decades of the 1930s and 1940s, and the equal and opposite anti-Communist reaction of the 1950s, became Hollywood's Great Moment on the American Political Stage." The studios had collaborated ... Read More Rating: - Exploding myths about Red HollywoodRemember the Hollywood blacklist? The Hollywood Ten? I'll bet you know a lot about these events even if you weren't alive in the 1950s. That's because Tinseltown has a vested interest in keeping the memory of this era alive. It was the era of the Red Scare, of Senator Joseph McCarthy waving his infamous list of communist subversives during a speech in West Virginia. It was the time of congressional investigations, a time when invoking the Fifth Amendment might keep you safe from a contempt charge but would ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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