| Description |
703 pages ; 25 cm. |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| Series |
Screen classics |
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Screen classics (Lexington, Ky.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Under western skies -- Baking bread and writing in Los Angeles -- Playing the studio game and organizing guilds -- Marriage and Johnny got his gun -- From B films to A films -- Money, politics, and war -- Into the Communist Party -- Trumbo's antifascist persuasion -- The 1947 hearings of the Committee on Un-American Activities -- Blacklisted, indicted, convicted -- The time of the toad -- Incarceration and drift -- Oh, oh, Mexico -- Negotiating the black market, working with the King Brothers -- Once more into the Communist Party -- Blacklist and black-market politics -- Using and revealing Robert Rich -- Spartacus -- Exodus and the credit announcements -- Back on the screen -- Hawaii and The sandpiper -- The fixer and the Laurel Award -- Johnny got his gun, the movie: preproduction -- Johnny got his gun, the movie: principal photography and editing -- Johnny got his gun, the movie: distribution and exhibition -- The final years -- Postmortem. |
| Subject |
Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976.
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Trumbo, Dalton, 1905-1976 -- Political and social views.
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Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Blacklisting of authors -- United States.
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Communism and motion pictures -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Trumbo, Christopher, author.
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| ISBN |
9780813146805 hardcover |
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0813146801 hardcover |
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