Hide in Plain Sight

The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950-2002

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by Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner

Palgrave

Due/Published December 2004, 328 pages, paper

ISBN 1403966842

New in paper (F04)

Hidden in Plain Sight completes Buhle and Wagner's trilogy on the Hollywood blacklist. When the blacklistees were hounded out of Hollywood, some left for television where many worked on children's shows like "Rocky and Bullwinkle." A number wrote adult sitcoms such as The Donna Reed Show, and M*A*S*H while some of them ultimately returned to Hollywood and made great films such as Norma Rae, and Midnight Cowboy . This is a thoughtful look at the aftermath of the horror that was the McCarthy period from two expert historians of the blacklist period.

Contents

The Strangest Saga in Show Biz: from the Theatrical Avante-Garde to the Unwashed (Living Room) Masses
From Grand Theater to Grit and Giggles Theater: The Art of the Television Series
Deep in the Void
The Neorealist Aesthetic
Working Under Cover (and Underpaid)
The Climb Back
The Hollywood Art Film and the Pleasures of Late Vindication
Joseph Losey: The Lucid Outsider
Really the End?