Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community 1930-1960

Acknowledgments
Contents
	Introduction
1 The Screenwriter in Hollywood
	The Rise of the Screenwriter Class
	Work and Status in Hollywood
2 The Founding of the Screen Writers Guilds 1933
	External Enemies
	Internal Problems
	The SWG Revived
3 The Communist Party in Hollywood: Intellectual Ferment Brutalized By Politics
	The Contradictions of Hollywood Communism in the Thirties
	Historical Background
	The CPUSA in Hollywood
	The Impact of Communism on Screenwriters
	The Impact of Communism on Hollywood
4 The Great Popular Front, 1936-39
	Early Political Consciousness in Hollywood
	First Stirrings: the EPIC Campaign, 1934
	The Background of Hollywood\'s Internationalism
	The Hollywood Popular Front and International Politics
	0935-39)
	The Hollywood Popular Front in State and National Politics: The Motion Picture Democratic Committee (1938-39)
	Conclusion: the Decline of the Popular Front ( /939-40)
5 The Disintegration of the Popular Front
	The Nazi-Soviet Tact and the “Great Awakening”
	Liberals vs. Communists
	Douglas, Dunne, and the Decline of the Motion Picture Democratic Committee
	The Emergence of Liberal Anti-Communism
6 The Phony War and the Resurrected Popular Front, 1940-44
	The Conservative Reaction (1938-43)
	Keep America out of the War
	Albert Maltz
	Left-Wing Anti-Interventionism
	Hollywood at War
	The Communist Tarty
	Popular Front Redivivus (1941-44)
	Toward Renewed Polarization
7 Prelude to Repression, 1944-47
	Anti-Communism Within the Film Community:
	The Motion Ficture Alliance
	HICCASP and the Third Popular Front
	The Reality of Appearances
	Hollywood on the Eve of the Subpoenas
8 The Congressional Hearings of October 1941
	The Investigation Commences: Congressional Pressure and Producer Resistance, March-September 1947
	The Strategy of the “Unfriendly” Witnesses
	The Political Battle Against HUAC
	The Progressive Citizens of America
	The Committee for the First Amendment
	The Screen Writers Guild
	Washington, D.C., October 20-30,1947
	The Aftermath, November 1947
9 The Influence of Hollywood Communists on American Films and American Politics, 1930-41
10 The Hollywood Ten: From the Blacklist to Prison November 1941 -June 1950
	The Value of the Ten
	The Ten\'s Fight to Stay Out of Jail, 1947-50
	The Ten\'s Fight Against the Blacklist91947-55
11 The Devastation: HUAC Returns to Hollywood, 19S1-S3
	The Cold War Prelude
12 Exile and Return: the Aftermath, 1953 to Present
	Conclusion: the Effects of the Blacklist
	Epilogue
	Afterword
	Afterword to the Paperback Edition
Appendix 1. Original Occupations of Early Screenwriters
Appendix 2. Screen Writers Guild Officers and Board Members 1933-45
Appendix 3. Key Political Activists in Hollywood
Appendix 4
Appendix 5
Appendix 6
Appendix 7
	Notes
Bibliography
	About the Authors
	Index