FAMST 101C Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: See It Now, George Clooney, Anti-Communism
Document Summary
Week 2 screening: good night, and good luck (dir. To enable you to see how an important set of events in television history is represented in mainstream entertainment, you"ll see one example in the feature-length film, good night, and good luck. The film focuses on the real life newsman edward r. murrow who hosted the cbs news show see it now, a weekly 30-minute program devoted to fairly in-depth reporting about a range of subjects. See it now is perhaps best remembered for murrow"s vigorous denunciation of. Senator mccarthy and the congressional hearings that were ostensibly held to claim, often with no evidence, that communists were operating nefariously throughout the america, including the media. The hilmes reading discusses the house un-american activities (huac) hearings (on p: in the context of the cold war between the united states and the soviet union after. World war ii, and the "fierce anticommunism" that prevailed, especially during the 1950s.
