The Inquisition in Hollywood
Subtitle: Politics in the Film Community 1930-1960
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Published: November 1983
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9780520048867
Subjects: Films, cinema; Motion Picture Industry; History - General History; Moving-picture industry; General; Blacklisting of entertainers; 1917-; Communism; United States
First sentence: The mating of Hollywood mogul and eastern magnate produced, by the early thirties, an industrial-financial colossus: one of the most lucrative businesses in the United States, with gross assets of over two billion dollars, an annual gross income of one billion dollars, and an annual production rate of more than six hundred feature films.