Dalton Trumbo : Blacklisted Hollywood Radical.

James Dalton Trumbo (1905--1976) is widely recognized for his work as a screenwriter, playwright, and author, but he is also remembered as one of the Hollywood Ten who opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee. Refusing to answer questions about his prior involvement with the Communist Part...

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Main Author: Ceplair, Larry
Other Authors: Trumbo, Christopher
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Series:Screen Classics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1. Under the Western Skies; 2. Baking Bread and Writing in Los Angeles; 3. Playing the Studio Game and Organizing Guilds; 4. Marriage and Johnny Got His Gun; 5. From B Films to A Films; 6. Money, Politics, and War; 7. Into the Communist Party; 8. Trumbo's Antifascist Persuasion; 9. The 1947 Hearings of the Committee on Un-American Activities; 10. Blacklisted, Indicted, Convicted; 11. The Time of the Toad; 12. Incarceration and Drift; 13. Oh, Oh, Mexico; 14. Negotiating the Black Market, Working with the King Brothers.
  • 15. From the Communist Party to the New Left16. Blacklist and Black-Market Politics; 17. Using and Revealing Robert Rich; 18. Spartacus; 19. Exodus and the Credit Announcements; 20. Back on the Screen; 21. Hawaii and The Sandpiper; 22. The Fixer and the Laurel Award; 23. Johnny Got His Gun
  • The Movie: Preproduction; 24. Johnny Got His Gun
  • The Movie: Principal Photography and Editing; 25. Johnny Got His Gun
  • The Movie: Distribution and Exhibition; 26. The Final Years; 27. Postmortem; Acknowledgments; Appendix; Chronology; Notes; Index.