Unfriendly witnesses :: gender, theater, and film in the McCarthy era /

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 Hol...

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1. Verfasser: Barranger, Milly S.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2008.
Schriftenreihe:Theater in the Americas.
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xviii, 197 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-185) and index.
ISBN:9781435663664
1435663667
0809328763
9780809328765
9780809387335
0809387336
1299454712
9781299454712

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