Essays Tagged: "Hollywood Blacklist"

A review of the Movie the Majestic!

The Majestic1. Peter Appleton (Jim Carrey) seems to have it all: a beautiful girlfriend, a house in Hollywood, a nice car, and a successful career, until he is included on the infamous Hollywood Black ... ortrays other mediums as being unstable, indecisive, and unreliable. Even though the newspapers and Hollywood production studios had no evidence of Peter being a Communist he was titled as one, and fi ...

(3 pages) 45 1 4.5 Dec/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

The Red Scare

g anger and raging bigotry.First there were the Palmer Raids, and then McCarthyism, followed by the Hollywood Blacklist. The United States feared conspiracy from all sides during the aftermath of the ... patriotic was met with prejudice and fanaticism.Another disturbing symptom of the Red Scare was the Hollywood Blacklist, engineered by the House of Unamerican Activities (a name, which, in itself is a ...

(6 pages) 124 1 4.3 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Crucible Essay

The Crucible and the Hollywood Blacklist The 1950's witnessed a reoccurrence of could be called the "Witchcraft T ... in an irregular fashion or did something out of the ordinary, we did in the 50's just as well. The Hollywood Blacklist of the 50's had a huge impact on the people of America and the people put on the ... e people put on the list (just like in Salem with the people accused of witchery). Both, the 1950's Hollywood Blacklist and the Crucible illustrate how fear and hysteria can cause total chaos in a soc ...

(2 pages) 19 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Hollywood Blacklist

rname � PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT �4� NameInstructorCourse/NumberDateIntroductionThe Hollywood Blacklist refers to a list of American professional entertainers disallowed from participa ... ons linked with communism, and failure to help in investigating the Communist Party activities."The Hollywood Blacklist"The blacklist arose from the 1940s anticommunists pursue targeting several high- ...

(3 pages) 0 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies