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Radical Innocence
On October 30, 1947, the House Committee on Un-American Activities concluded the first round of hearings on the alleged Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. Hollywood was ordered to "clean its own house," and ten witnesses who had refused to answer questions about their membership in the Screen Writers Guild and the Communist party eventually received contempt citations. By 1950, the Hollywood Ten (as they quickly became known), which included writers, directors, and a producer, were serving prison sentences ranging from six months to one year. Since that time, the members of the Hollywood Ten have been either dismissed as industry hacks or eulogized as Cold War martyrs, bu...
I Am Spartacus!
A “lively” memoir by the Hollywood legend about the making of Spartacus, with a foreword by George Clooney (Los Angeles Times). One of the world’s most iconic movie stars, Kirk Douglas has distinguished himself as a producer, philanthropist, and author of ten works of fiction and memoir. Now, more than fifty years after the release of his enduring epic Spartacus, Douglas reveals the riveting drama behind the making of the legendary gladiator film. Douglas began producing the movie in the midst of the politically charged era when Hollywood’s moguls refused to hire anyone accused of Communist sympathies. In a risky move, Douglas chose Dalton Trumbo, a blacklisted screenwriter, to write...
Auf den Hund gekommen Band III
Auf den Hund gekommen Band III - letzte Fortsetzung der Begegnungen mit Büchern und Menschen: neun Geschichten um und am Offenen Bücherschrank. Die Schweiz, hier die schönste Barockstadt Solothurn, da am Ufer der Aare ein "Offener Bücherschrank" - hierher flaniert der Autor, magisch angezogen, um Bücher anzutreffen, die entweder eine Entdeckung sein können oder Leseerlebnisse aus vergangenen Zeiten hervorrufen. Es sind nicht nur Bücher, die hier eine Rolle haben. Genauso sind es Begegnungen mit Menschen, die der Autor erlebt und uns anekdotisch wiedergibt.
Wozu all diese Briefe gut waren...
Georg Aeberhards Briefe führen uns seit den 50er Jahren bis heute durch sein Leben, das in Prag einen Anfang nahm (geb. 1949) und quer durch Europa bis nach Kalifornien, Brasilien, Peru oder Australien verlief. Sie geben Zeugnis davon, wie das Weltgeschehen sein Leben prägte; sie tun es auf eine persönliche Art und Weise, rufen uns in Erinnerung, welche Wichtigkeit diese Art von Kommunikation hatte - wozu die Briefe gut waren...
The Final Victim of the Blacklist
John Howard Lawson was one of the most brilliant, successful, and intellectual screenwriters on the Hollywood scene in the 1930s and 1940s. This biography of Lawson features many of his prominent friends and associates, including John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, F Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Chaplin, Gene Kelly, Edmund Wilson, and others.
The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist
Seventy-five years ago, the Hollywood blacklist ruined lives, stifled creativity, and sent waves of proscription and censorship throughout United States culture. When the Hollywood Ten refused to answer the questions of the House Committee on Un-American Activities about their membership in the Communist Party, they were sentenced to prison, the five who were under contract were fired by their studios, and all were blacklisted from reemployment until they "purged themselves of their communist taint." By the 1950s, this blacklist publicly stigmatized nearly three hundred other Americans in the entertainment industry who invoked the First and Fifth Amendments in their refusal to apologize for ...
