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Hide in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950-2002 ReviewNo need to repeat details from earlier reviews. The Buhle/Wagner work remains invaluable for filling out the historical record of the notorious Hollywood blacklist. The inquisition itself (1947-circa 1952) has been recounted in a number of worthy volumes; however, this is the only one I know that tracks down careers during the decades that followed.
One salient point: the book is not research friendly. The material, though fascinating, is not well organized. The text does read like a collection of essays, as one reviewer points out. Thus there's no particular development of themes or chronology. An individual listee may appear in one context and then in another 50 pages later with no connecting thread. The index is helpful, but cannot connect the threads. (Joseph Losey remains a notable exception.) Also, no bibliography or list of interviews is furnished. Thus researchers must piece together from the footnotes. None of this is meant to detract from the excellent research behind the book, nor from the contribution towards understanding how money and politics play out in the entertainment industry. What is clear from the book is that a lot of producers got a lot of high-priced talent for a lot less money as a result of the purges.
A personal note. The other night, I watched a 1957 teen movie, The Careless Years, which posed the typical quandary of 50's lovelorn youth-- Are we too young to marry. Nothing here beyond the banal except for one aspect. The boy's dad works in a machine shop, where he takes the son who wants to work there so he can marry the girl and forego college. Nothing unusual, except Dad (John Larch) goes into some detail about the lamentable work conditions that a machinist must put up with. That detail seemed a little out of sync with the prevailing social theme, but was informative, nonetheless. Come to peel back the writer's credit and, lo and behold-- thank you John Howard Lawson for those few moments of blue-collar reality in an otherwise whitebread 60 minutes. Yes indeed, the big band may have scattered, but the beat goes on, even where least expected.Hide in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950-2002 Overview

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