Menu
Excerpts
Exhibits
Collections
Originals
Categories
Map
Search
Person
Howard Fast
View on Map
Related Excerpts
Viewing 1—3 of 3
How Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus Broke the Hollywood Blacklists
The 1960 film was penned by two blacklisted Communist writers. Its arrival in theaters was a middle finger to the McCarthyist witch hunt in Hollywood.
by
Taylor Dorrell
via
Jacobin
on
September 14, 2023
"A Trap Had Been Set for These People"
A companion to a new PBS film, "The Memorial Day Massacre," the first oral history exploring the murder of 10 workers in Chicago.
by
Greg Mitchell
via
Between Rock and a Hard Place
on
May 13, 2023
Strategic Long-Term Propaganda
A new book considers the mid-century authors who were – and weren't – willing to have their work deployed in the service of the Cold War.
by
Randy Boyagoda
via
First Things
on
June 1, 2020