Congressional Theatre: Dramatizing McCarthyism on Stage, Film, and Television

Brenda Murphy (University of Connecticut)

Congressional Theatre: Dramatizing McCarthyism on Stage, Film, and Television
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
28 August 1999
Pages
326
ISBN
9780521640886

Congressional Theatre: Dramatizing McCarthyism on Stage, Film, and Television

Brenda Murphy (University of Connecticut)

Congressional Theatre is the first book to identify and examine the significant body of plays, films, and teleplays that responded to the actions of the House Committee on Un-American Activities during the show business hearings it held between 1947 and 1960. Among the writers discussed are Arthur Miller, Bertolt Brecht, Lillian Hellman, Maxwell Anderson, Elia Kazan, Barrie Stavis, Herman Wouk, Eric Bentley, Saul Levitt, Budd Schulberg, Carl Foreman, Abraham Polonsky, and Walter Bernstein.

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