Congressional Theatre

Dramatizing McCarthyism on Stage, Film, and Television

By:

Brenda Murphy

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama

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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.

Release date Australia

August 28th, 1999

Author

Brenda Murphy

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

14 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

326

Series

Cambridge Studies in American Theatre and Drama

Dimensions

159x235x25

ISBN-13

9780521640886

Product ID

5925946

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