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Informationen zum Autor Brenda Murphy is the author of more than twenty books. Recently she has been writing biography, memoir, and biographical fiction. Her latest books include Becoming Carlotta: A Biographical Novel (2018), based on the life of the actress Carlotta Monterey, Eugene O'Neill Remembered (2017, with George Monteiro), a biography in documents, and After the Voyage: An Irish American Story (2016), historical fiction based on the experience of her immigrant family in the Boston area from 1870 until the 1930s. After teaching at universities in New York and Connecticut, Brenda now lives in Maryland where she enjoys writing full time surrounded by deer and horse farms. Klappentext Congressional Theatre is the first book to identify and examine the significant body of plays! films! and teleplays that responded to the actions of the House Committee on Un-American Activities during the "show business hearings" it held between 1947 and 1960. Among the writers discussed are Arthur Miller! Bertolt Brecht! Lillian Hellman! Maxwell Anderson! Elia Kazan! Barrie Stavis! Herman Wouk! Eric Bentley! Saul Levitt! Budd Schulberg! Carl Foreman! Abraham Polonsky! and Walter Bernstein. Zusammenfassung Congressional Theatre is the first book to identify and examine the significant body of plays! films! and teleplays that responded to the actions of the House Committee on Un-American Activities during the 'show business hearings' it held between 1947 and 1960. Among the writers discussed are Arthur Miller! Bertolt Brecht! and Elia Kazan. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. The Committee and the Culture: 1. The stage is set; 2. The social drama; 3. Dramatizing directly; Part II. Making Analogies: 4. Witch hunt; 5. Inquisition; 6. Informers; 7. Forensics; Conclusion; Notes; Screen credits; Television and radio credits; Index.
