Broadway And The Blacklist

During the era often commonly known as McCarthyism, many motion picture and television creators were blacklisted for supposed communist ties. There remained, however, a creative outlet that still welcomed these artists--theatre. This book explores the role theatre played during this turbulent period, covering the formation of the Theatre Guild (which birthed the Group Theatre), the short-lived Federal Theatre Project, and the investigations of the motion picture and television industries, and Broadway, by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Appendices discuss McCarthy's role and present the memos of investigator Dolores Faconti Scotti, along with a list of prominent witnesses in HUAC's Broadway hearings, and reactions by artists' unions in the decades following the blacklist.

• | Author: K. Kevyne Baar
• | Publisher: McFarland
• | Publication Date: Jan 21, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 217 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 1476672598
• | ISBN-13: 9781476672595