With the movie "Trumbo" opening Thursday, Off-Ramp contributor R.H. Greene looks at how Hollywood tried (for a time) to stand up to the House Un-American Activities Committee. With the new movie ...

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Last month the WSWS posted a review of Hollywood's Blacklists: A Political and Cultural History by Reynold Humphries [The anti-communist purge of the American film industry] We explained: "The ...

The Cold War hit the movies in 1947 when the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) descended on Hollywood armed with the names of leading film folk suspected of being communists or left-wing ...

Those words shook the Washington courtroom as Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo shouted over a slamming gavel. Trumbo was one of many who refused to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities ...

Blacklist: The Hollywood Red Scare, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles California, May 4 to September 3, 2023. Two days after 11,500 film and television writers represented by the Writers Guild of ...

This sweeping account from journalist Burke (The New Threat) charts the emergence of “a new kind of transnational terrorism” in the late 1960s, when loose networks of radicals, Continue reading » ...

Some people in the 21st century think “Hollywood blacklist” refers to hot-but-unproduced screenplays. Others have vague notions that the “Unfriendly 10” screenwriters were denied work because they ...

“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” Members of the House Committee on Un-American Activities raised this question with unrelenting zeal in a series of hearings over ...

A political free-for-all involving the White House, the FBI, Congress, the media, and Russia — sound familiar? Those groups have dominated the headlines for the past month in the Donald Trump-James ...

The then-named Special Committee on Un-American Activities gets its start when U.S. Rep. Samuel Dickstien, whose district had a large Jewish population, becomes alarmed at the rise of pro-Nazi groups ...

Marsha Hunt, a veteran actress of the Golden Age of film, radio and Broadway who later saw her career wither over her protests against the infamous House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), died ...