The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960
The Inquisition in Hollywood examines the suppression of radical political activity in the film industry from the days of the Great Depression through the tumultuous House Un-American Activities Committee era to the waning days of the infamous blacklist.\ Although this thirty-year period of American history is marked by widespread targeting of leftists in all areas of life, those in the film industry - predominately screenwriters - were considered to be in positions of great potential...
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The Inquisition in Hollywood examines the suppression of radical political activity in the film industry from the days of the Great Depression through the tumultuous House Un-American Activities Committee era to the waning days of the infamous blacklist.Although this thirty-year period of American history is marked by widespread targeting of leftists in all areas of life, those in the film industry - predominately screenwriters - were considered to be in positions of great potential indoctrinating power, and found themselves under intense scrutiny as the cold war hysteria mounted. Ceplair and Englund trace the history of political struggle in Hollywood back to the formation of the Screen Writers Guild in 1933. Many of the blacklisted filmmakers were members of the Communist Party and all of the graylisted filmmakers had expressed their sympathy with progressive (mainly anti-fascist) causes.
Preface to the Illinois PaperbackIntroduction1The Screenwriter in Hollywood12The Founding of the Screen Writers Guild, 1933163The Communist Party in Hollywood: Intellectual Ferment Brutalized by Politics474Thee Great Popular Front, 1936-39835The Disintegration of the Popular Front1296The Phony War and the Resurrected Popular Front, 1940-441547Prelude to Repression, 1944-472008The Congressional Hearings of October 19472549The Influence of Hollywood Communists on American Films and American Politics, 1930-4729910The Hollywood Ten: From the Blacklist to Prison, November 1947-June 195032511Devastation: HUAC Returns to Hollywood, 1951-5336112Exile and Return: the Aftermath, 1953 to Present398Afterword to the 1983 Paperback430Appendices441Notes459Bibliography487Index515
