Unfriendly witnesses : gender, theater, and film in the McCarthy era / Milly S. Barranger.
2008
PN1590.B5 B33 2008eb
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Title
Unfriendly witnesses : gender, theater, and film in the McCarthy era / Milly S. Barranger.
Author
ISBN
9781435663664 (electronic bk.)
1435663667 (electronic bk.)
0809328763 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780809328765 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780809387335
0809387336
1299454712
9781299454712
1435663667 (electronic bk.)
0809328763 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780809328765 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780809387335
0809387336
1299454712
9781299454712
Imprint
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2008.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 197 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Call Number
PN1590.B5 B33 2008eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)250657235
Summary
Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era examines the experiences of seven prominent women of stage and screen whose lives and careers were damaged by the McCarthy-era "witch hunts" for Communists and Communist sympathizers in the entertainment industry: Judy Holliday, Anne Revere, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Margaret Webster, Mady Christians, and Kim Hunter. The effects on women of the anti-Communist crusades that swept the nation between 1947 and 1962 have been largely overlooked by cultural critics and historians, who have instead f
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-185) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
McCarthyism
Billie Dawn goes to Washington: Judy Holliday
Death by innuendo: Mady Christians
Unfriendly witness: Anne Revere
The defiant ones: Lilian Hellman and Dorothy Parker
Guilt by association: Margaret Webster
The blacklist is on fire: Kim Hunter.
Billie Dawn goes to Washington: Judy Holliday
Death by innuendo: Mady Christians
Unfriendly witness: Anne Revere
The defiant ones: Lilian Hellman and Dorothy Parker
Guilt by association: Margaret Webster
The blacklist is on fire: Kim Hunter.
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Series
Theater in the Americas.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Barranger, Milly S. Unfriendly witnesses. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2008
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