Humanities

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Humanities

• Dance Make-up test today
• Clear all desks except for test cards and
  pen/pencil
• No devices today
• When complete, staple your test card to your test
  and turn in to me

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American Cinema

• Turn in all Sci-fi/Horror materials
• We will begin Hollywood and the Cold War today

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Hollywood and the Cold War
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The Cold War at Home

• With the Great Depression tens of thousands of
  Americans joined the Communist Party
• After FDRs Works Projects and WWII most quit
  the Party

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1950s The NEW Red Scare

• Fears of conspiracy.
• China fell to the Communists in 1949
• Fear that the Communists were going to try to
  overthrow the American government

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In the summer of 1954, a branch of the American
Legion denounced the Girl Scouts, calling the
"one world" ideas advocated in their publications
"un-American."
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HUAC

• House Un-American Activities Committee
• Congressional committee to find Communists
• Focused more on Hollywood

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Hollywood Ten

• The movie industry was the first to be attacked
  by HUAC, claiming that communists had broke into
  Hollywood and polluted America with propaganda
• Writers and producers were called to testify and
  when some refused to answer questions about their
  own political views, they were jailed for their
  disdain
• Not only were these ten fined and sentenced to
  years in jail for contempt of Congress, they were
  also blacklisted from working in the film
  industry in Hollywood until the 1960's when the
  ban was lifted

Herbert Biberman, Martin Popper, Robert W. Kenny,
Albert Maltz, Lester Cole, Dalton Trumbo, John
Howard Lawson, Alvah Bessie, Samuel Ornitz, Ring
Lardner Jr., Edward Dmytryk, Adrian Scott.
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The Blacklist

• Anyone with associations with the Hollywood Ten
  were afraid of being called Communist
• Studio bosses fired and blacklisted employees
• They also turned out a string of films warning
  against the dangers of communism at home and
  abroad

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Cold War in the US

• Hunt for Communists continued into the 1980s.
• Influenced nearly all aspects of American
  political and cultural life from 1946

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Movie traits

• Fear of communism (reds)
• Espionage
• Spies
• Fighting the reds in foreign lands to save the
  people of those lands from falling to communism
• They dont stand a chance against Us
• Atomic/nuclear secrets
• Clever blending of a fictional narrative with the
  style of a documentary
• The importance of denouncing friends and
  relatives with communist associations
• Late 80s and 90s saw defection as a subject

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Our Movies

• Blast from the Past 1999 Hugh Wilson
• From Russia with Love 1963 Terrance Young

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Red Dawn

• 1984
• John Milius
• The outbreak of World War III has occurred,
  leaving a group of mid-western high school
  students turned refugees to slowly organize
  themselves into an effective guerilla force. The
  group becomes sophisticated enough to challenge
  and take on Soviet invaders.

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The Hunt for Red October

• 1990
• John McTiernan
• In 1984, the USSR's best submarine captain in
  their newest sub violates orders and heads for
  the USA. Is he trying to defect, or to start a
  war?