Jill Lepore’s magisterial These Truths is a fantastic book. It is highly ambitious and delivers a strong narrative history of the United States. Professor Lepore has taken the United States Constitution as a starting point for a highly impressive single volume survey of the history of the USA. Impressive as it is, it is not […]
What place does history have in a post-truth world?
The Knowledge Solution: Australian History Anna Clark, Melbourne University Press, 2019 Book Review When the subtitle of a book reads: “What place does history have in apost-truth world?”, you would think that the book might actually touch upon the topic. Anna Clark has edited this book on Australian historical writing. AssociateProfessor Clark is an Australian […]
The Screen is Red – book review
Brianton, Kevin Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018, Vol.48(2), pp.64-67 Bernard F. Dick, The Screen Is Red: Hollywood, Communism, and the Cold War, Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2016. 282 pp., illus. Hardcover: $65. During the House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities – or HUAC – investigations of Hollywood in 1947, chairman […]
Philip Taffs’s Reviews > Hollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist
Hollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist by Kevin Brianton Philip Taffs‘s review Oct 10, 2018 really liked it John Ford once famously introduced himself: “I’m John Ford. I make Westerns.” To which Australian author, Kevin Brianton, might now rightfully respond: “I’m Kevin Brianton. I write […]
Run of DeMille Red Scare, Blacklist and a Directorial Feud
Run of DeMille Red Scare, Blacklist and a Directorial Feud December 8, 2017 Cinemontage Hollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist by Kevin Brianton University Press of Kentucky, 2016 Hardcover, 174 pages, $45.00 ISBN # 978-0-8131-6892-0 by Betsy A. McLane The blacklisting of Communists, former Communists, union supporters, […]
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KEVIN BRIANTON Hollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist University Press of Kentucky Hardcover, 156 pages, $45 KentuckyPress.com. When legend becomes fact, print the facts. Finally! On October 22, 1950, during the height of the Red Scare, Screen Directors Guild members met to vote on the dismissal of […]
Hollywood Divided: A review by Raquel Stecher
Hollywood Divided by Kevin Brianton Hollywood Divided The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist by Kevin Brianton University Press of Kentucky October 2016 Hardcover ISBN: 9780813168920 174 pages Amazon – Barnes and Noble – Powell’s On October 22, 1950, more than 500 directors met at the Beverly Hills Hotel for […]
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Hollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist
A House Divided With Newt Gingrich’s call for a new House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), there may be no relevant book than Hollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist (University Press of Kentucky) by Kevin Brianton. This new title centers on a now legendary meeting held by the […]
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Hollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist
By Judith Reveal
“an interesting book . . .” In the late 1940s and early 1950s, it can be said that nothing was more terrifying to the United States than the “Red Scare”—that is, the fear that Communism lurked in every corner of American lives and there was only one way to stop it: government intervention. Kevin Brianton’s […]
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Hollywood Divided: The 1950 Screen Directors Guild Meeting and the Impact of the Blacklist
On October 22, 1950, the Screen Directors Guild (SDG) gathered for a meeting at the opulent Beverly Hills Hotel. Among the group’s leaders were some of the most powerful men in Hollywood—John Ford, Cecil B. DeMille, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, John Huston, Frank Capra, William Wyler, and Rouben Mamoulian—and the issue on the table was nothing […]