Beschreibung:
Hollywood and Anticommunism traces 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).
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