Cinema Journal (2000) - "We Do Not Ask You to Condone This": How the Blacklist Saved Hollywood
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- article: "We Do Not Ask You to Condone This": How the Blacklist Saved Hollywood
- author(s): Jon Lewis
- journal: Cinema Journal (2000)
- issue: volume 39, issue 2, page 3
- journal ISSN: 0009-7101
- publisher: University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press)
- keywords: Academy Awards, Alfred Hitchcock, American Film Institute Life Achievement Award, Foreign Correspondent (1940), Industry, Jews, Jon Lewis, Lew Wasserman, Martin Scorsese, Motion pictures, New York City, New York, Paramount Pictures, Patricia Hitchcock, Patrick McGilligan, Paul Lukas, Political alliances, Production costs, Richard Schickel, Robert Montgomery, Sidney Bernstein, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Universal Studios, Walter Wanger, Warner Brothers
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Abstract
The Hollywood blacklist evolved out of and impacted on a complex set of economic conditions. This essay focuses on the ways in which certain collusive strategies put in place to control the industry workforce in 1947 enabled the studios to regain control over the entertainment marketplace after the Second World War.
Notes
- Includes a brief reference to "Foreign Correspondent" as being one of 17 "war-mongering features" that the 1941 Senate hearings focused their attention on