Hide in Plain Sight : The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950-2002

by Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner

• ISBN13: 9781403961440
• ISBN10: 1403961441
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2003-08-23
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Hide in Plain Sight completes Buhle and Wagner's seminal trilogy on the Hollywood blacklist. When the blacklistees were hounded out of Hollywood, some left for television where many worked on children's shows like Rocky and Bullwinkle. A number wrote adult sitcoms such as The Donna Reed Show and M*A*S*H, while some of them ultimately returned to Hollywood and made great films like Norma Rae and Mid-night Cowboy. This is a thoughtful look at the aftermath of the horror that was the McCarthy period from two expert historians of the blacklist period.

Author Biography

Paul Buhle founded the Oral History of the American Left archive at NYU.

David Wagner has co-authored a number of books with Paul Buhle, including the recent Radical Hollywood.

Table of Contents

The Strangest Saga in Show Biz: from the Theatrical Avante-Garde to the Unwashed (Living Room) Masses

From Grand Theater to Grit and Giggles Theater: The Art of the Television Series

Deep in the Void

The Neorealist Aesthetic

Working Under Cover (and Underpaid)

The Climb Back

The Hollywood Art Film and the Pleasures of Late Vindication

Joseph Losey: The Lucid Outsider

Really the End?