CAS HI 338 Lecture Notes - Mccarthyism
11 Mar 2014
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Culture, huac, and the cold war: during the first decade of the cold war, culture was very much about the threat posed from within the country rather than without, mike hammer, huac in hollywood, condoning the use of extreme violence, condemning the government for not doing enough to stop communism tough, ruthless, private detective who considered himself above/outside the law ii, highly popular: books, television series, movies, even revived in the 1980s, encapsulated what the cold war was thought to be about, and in many ways mirrored the thinking and characterization of joseph. Mccarthy: when huac went after hollywood, numerous actors, directors, and producers were either imprisoned for refusing to collaborate or blacklisted for confessing to previous/current connections to or sympathies with communism, accusations of communism in hollywood had been present since iii. the 1930s filmmakers were encouraged to avoid subtle touches of.
