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Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era (Theater in the Americas)
Milly S. Barranger
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Description for Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era (Theater in the Americas)
Paperback. Examines the experiences of seven prominent women of stage and screen whose lives and careers were damaged by the McCarthy-era "witch hunts" for Communists and Communist sympathizers in the entertainment industry: Judy Holliday, Anne Revere, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Margaret Webster, Mady Christians, and Kim Hunter. Series Editor(s): Schanke, Robert A. Series: Theater in the Americas. Num Pages: 208 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; AN; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era examines the experiences of seven prominent women of stage and screen whose lives and careers were damaged by the McCarthy-era ""witch hunts"" for Communists and Communist sympathizers in the entertainment industry: Judy Holliday, Anne Revere, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Margaret Webster, Mady Christians, and Kim Hunter.The effects on women of the anti-Communist crusades that swept the nation between 1947 and 1962 have been largely overlooked by cultural critics and historians, who have instead focused their attention on the men of the period. Author Milly S. Barranger looks at the gender ... Read more
Unfriendly Witnesses: Gender, Theater, and Film in the McCarthy Era examines the experiences of seven prominent women of stage and screen whose lives and careers were damaged by the McCarthy-era ""witch hunts"" for Communists and Communist sympathizers in the entertainment industry: Judy Holliday, Anne Revere, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, Margaret Webster, Mady Christians, and Kim Hunter.The effects on women of the anti-Communist crusades that swept the nation between 1947 and 1962 have been largely overlooked by cultural critics and historians, who have instead focused their attention on the men of the period. Author Milly S. Barranger looks at the gender ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809328765
SKU
V9780809328765
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About Milly S. Barranger
Milly S. Barranger is a distinguished professor emerita of theater history and dramatic theory and a former producing director of the PlayMakers Repertory Company. She is the author of Margaret Webster: A Life in the Theater; Theatre: A Way of Seeing; and Understanding Plays.
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