blacklist
Michael Wilson’s ‘Salt of the Earth’ script, miracle of the blacklist era
July 1, 2024Salt of the Earth was the most daring script of Michael Wilson’s career.
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Albert Maltz’s long-suppressed civil rights novel is rediscovered—and still relevant
January 23, 2024A Long Day in a Short Life, just released in a beautiful new paperback edition by Alma Books, is available for the first time since 1957. You’ve probably never heard of it.
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‘Blacklist: The Hollywood Red Scare’: An engrossing museum treatment of cultural repression
August 21, 2023In an authoritative, comprehensive exhibition currently on view at the Skirball Cultural Center, visitors can explore the history and impact of the Hollywood Red Scare and its contemporary implications.
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‘The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist 75 Years Later’: A review
June 7, 2023Throughout this volume, there’s never a doubt that Ceplair writes with honesty, fairness, empathy, and deep knowledge.
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It can happen here: Three L.A. museums shine spotlights on Hollywood Blacklist
April 17, 2023Learning about yesterday’s anti-communist Reds-under-the-beds hysteria can empower us to resist today's rising tide of book banning, school curriculum gagging, censorship, disinformation, history denial, expulsions, redbaiting and more.
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