1st Edition

Hollywood and Anticommunism HUAC and the Evolution of the Red Menace, 1935-1950

By John J. Gladchuk Copyright 2007
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

This work concentrates on tracing the evolution of the so-called "red menace" phenomenon as a means of demonstrating the correlation between growing American paranoia and the success of the anticommunist campaign (1935-1955). The House Committee on Un-American Activities 1947 investigation of Hollywood, the nation's most visible industry, served a critical role in conjuring up anti-red hysteria... Read more

1. Introduction: HUAC, Hollywood and the Evolution of the Red Menace  2. Land of the Free, Home of the Hysterical: American Communism and the Cultivation of "Red" Hysteria  3. Painting Them Red: Periodicals and the Proliferation of American Anti-Communism 1935-1950  4. The Communist Conundrum: Moderate Hollywood Communists and Why They Were Subject to the HUAC Inquisition  5. Communism on Camera: Ninotchka and the Cinematic Representation of the Communist Left  6. The Right to Remain Silent: Hollywood, Albert Maltz, and the Post-Hearing Resistance  7. The Red Raid in Retrospect: Reflections on HUAC's Hollywood Investigation on its Impact on the Evolution of McCarthyism

Biography

John J. Gladchuk received his PhD from the University of California, Riverside.