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LOTTA PEOPLE OUT HERE WITH OPINIONS ABOUT BLACKLISTING AND THE HOLLYWOOD 10 WITH VERY LITTLE HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE OF BLACKLISTING AND THE HOLLYWOOD 10, this has been a media studies tweet
My personal favorite on the history of the Hollywood 10 is Jon Lewis, “We Do Not Ask You to Condone This”:
How the Blacklist Saved Hollywood, Cinema Journal
39, Number 2, Winter 2000
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1225550?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=hollywood%20ten&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dhollywood%2Bten%26acc%3Doff%26wc%3Don%26fc%3Doff%26group%3Dnone%26refreqid%3Dsearch%253A37049d0c6c9495963fd81f6779217f6b&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_aggregated%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3Af848083c70b4f0219cfbd48cd2dad1ad&seq=1
How the Blacklist Saved Hollywood, Cinema Journal
39, Number 2, Winter 2000
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1225550?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=hollywood%20ten&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dhollywood%2Bten%26acc%3Doff%26wc%3Don%26fc%3Doff%26group%3Dnone%26refreqid%3Dsearch%253A37049d0c6c9495963fd81f6779217f6b&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_aggregated%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3Af848083c70b4f0219cfbd48cd2dad1ad&seq=1
"The New York corporate offices of the studios exploited postwar anti-Semitism not only to combat the unions but also to force out the first-generation Jewish studio moguls"
This, for example!!!!
There's an important argument w/r/t how the entertainment industry is conceiving of public speech/image, how stars are refiguring their own image management, but you can only compare it to the Hollywood 10 if you fucking understand what actually happened with the Hollywood 10
