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    The Red Scare and McCarthyism of the 1940s-1950s had a major impact on Hollywood. Americans feared the spread of communism after World War 2 and Senator Joseph McCarthy led accusations that communists had infiltrated the US government and entertainment industry. Over 200 artists in Hollywood were blacklisted or had their careers destroyed due to being accused of holding communist views, even without evidence. Films during this period took an anti-communist stance to avoid similar scrutiny.

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    The Red Scare and McCarthyism of the 1940s-1950s had a major impact on Hollywood. Americans feared the spread of communism after World War 2 and Senator Joseph McCarthy led accusations that communists had infiltrated the US government and entertainment industry. Over 200 artists in Hollywood were blacklisted or had their careers destroyed due to being accused of holding communist views, even without evidence. Films during this period took an anti-communist stance to avoid similar scrutiny.

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    The Red Scare and McCarthyism of the 1940s-1950s had a major impact on Hollywood. Americans feared the spread of communism after World War 2 and Senator Joseph McCarthy led accusations that communists had infiltrated the US government and entertainment industry. Over 200 artists in Hollywood were blacklisted or had their careers destroyed due to being accused of holding communist views, even without evidence. Films during this period took an anti-communist stance to avoid similar scrutiny.

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    The Red Scare and McCarthyism of the 1940s-1950s had a major impact on Hollywood. Americans feared the spread of communism after World War 2 and Senator Joseph McCarthy led accusations that communists had infiltrated the US government and entertainment industry. Over 200 artists in Hollywood were blacklisted or had their careers destroyed due to being accused of holding communist views, even without evidence. Films during this period took an anti-communist stance to avoid similar scrutiny.

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    Film The

    Politics
    Red
    Scare

    930 1940 1950 1960 1970


    W II
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    A f t

    Americans were convinced


    that Soviet Union would try
    to spread Communism
    throughout the world.
    McCarthyism
    Increasing Fears
    Accusations:
    205 Communists in state employment
    Senator
    Investigated,
    So changed claims Joseph
    Destroyed Careers
    Without a shred of evidence
    McCarthy
    Senator
    Promoted - > Downfall Joseph
    Bold accusations + TV trials
    McCarthy
    1930s
    HUAC
    Unacceptable views
    1940s - Active
    Evidence
    Not illegal
    Imprisoned
    Downfall
    Denounced by Truman
    The ‘most un-American
    thing in the country today’
    Samuel
    Dalton
    Edward
    Alvah
    Lester
    John Ring
    Albert
    Herbert
    AdrianHowardHollywood
    Scott
    Screenwriter
    Screenwriter/
    Screenwriter,
    Screenwriter,
    Screenwriter
    Director,
    Screenwriter/
    Screenwriter,
    Screenwriter,
    Theatre Writer,
    Thirty
    Circumstantial
    Brotherhood
    The
    Producer,
    Objective,
    Seconds
    Caine
    Director
    Cloak
    Born and
    Free
    Trumbo
    Ornitz
    Lardner,
    Dmytryk
    Bessie
    Cole
    Maltz Jr. Success Story
    Lawson
    Biberman
    10 Burma!
    Over
    Salt Evidence
    Crossfire
    of
    Mutiny
    Man
    Tokyo
    (1945)
    ofDagger
    the Earth
    Blacklisting
    9 Days
    300 artists boycotted
    Charlie Chaplin absconded
    Pseudonyms
    10% Career Rebuilding
    Wartime films = Soviet Propaganda?
    Anti-Soviet/Communist Films:
    The Red Menace, I Married a Communist, Red Planet Mars
    The Film
    Anti-Communist Anti-HUAC
    Allegory Allegory

    Subversive invasion
    of USA
    HUAC looks bad –
    they want everyone to
    Pods want the same thing

    Communist spies?
    No-one can be Body Snatchers kept
    trusted NO POLITICAL
    everyone afraid
    NO POLITICAL
    ALLEGORY WAS
    ALLEGORY WAS
    People encouraged INTENDED!
    INTENDED!
    to be informants
    Authorities could not
    be trusted
    All Body Snatchers
    are the same and
    think alike

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