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They Admit It!(Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies)
Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies, by Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner (New Press, 448 pp., $29.95)
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a bunch of evil white male right-wing racist Republican congressmen (pardon my redundancy) started a committee whose sole purpose was to libel liberals. No sooner did it come to the attention of these evil white male right-wing racist Republican congressmen that Hollywood harbored a lot of liberals than they held hearings designed to prove that the film industry was full of card- carrying Communists who were brainwashing innocent American citizens by filling their movies with Red propaganda. Of ...
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RADICAL HOLLYWOOD: The Untold Story Behind America...Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner's Radical Hollywood: 1. When the oft-dubbed...are unwritten messages within Radical Hollywood, one might be that artistic vanity...
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...establishing that there indeed were Hollywood reds, now a rather easy task given the...But the main charge leveled at the Hollywood reds is that they supposedly infused films...thousand-plus films in which the Hollywood reds had significant artistic input. HUAC...
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...regarding the art and politics of the Hollywood reds. Even in the 1990s, Herbert Biberman...even by nominal sympathizers that the Hollywood reds had not been genuine Communists. Friends...cynical judgment has been that the Hollywood reds were not very talented and had played...
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...of Paul Buhle and Bob Wagner on the Hollywood Reds. In fact, Andersen wrote that he...a progressive interpretation of the Hollywood Reds and thinks magazines like Cineaste...Wagner, and Andersen regarding the Hollywood reds, our publishing history speaks for...
- Bulworth.
- Magazine article from: Canadian Dimension Goldberg, Shirley September 1, 1998 700+ words
...starred in as John Reed, the American hero of the Russian Revolution. Given the overwhelmingly conservative nature of Hollywood, Reds with its three hour examination of Bolshevik history and radical-left factions in the U.S. was, despite flaws, a...
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- Newspaper article from: Forward Robert Sklar August 2, 1996 700+ words
...represent his own ideological stance. Rossen later was blacklisted but resumed his career after "naming names" of other Hollywood Reds before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. As a director he made such films as "All the King's Men...
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...s performance in The Cowboys by surrounding him with a supporting cast of "leftwing hippies" and formerly blacklisted Hollywood reds. My favorite story comes from Peter Hyams, who was worried about dealing with Steve McQueen and, hat in hand, approached...
- FALSE WITCHES, REAL REDS.
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...1997 Hollywood red whitewash and a quotation from Lenin, and works on through another 300 detailed pages. Who were the Hollywood reds? Where did they come from? What did they get up to? How did they make out in the end? Billingsley has the answers to...
Source: HighBeam Research, They Admit It!(Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America's...