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Words at War - World War II Era Radio Drama and the Postwar Broadcasting Industry Blacklist (Hardcover)
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Words at War - World War II Era Radio Drama and the Postwar Broadcasting Industry Blacklist (Hardcover)
Series: Studies and Documentation in the History of Popular Entertainment
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Words at War describes how 17 radio dramatists and their actors
fought a war of words against fascism abroad and injustice at home.
Beginning in the late 1930s, the commercial networks, private
agencies, and the government cooperated with radio dramatists to
produce plays to alert Americans to the Nazi threat. They also used
radio to stimulate morale. They showed how Americans could support
the fight against fascism even if it meant just having a "victory
garden." Simultaneously as they worked on the war effort, many
radio writers and actors advanced a progressive agenda to fight the
enemy within: racism, poverty, and other social ills. When the war
ended, many of these people paid for their idealism by suffering
blacklisting. Veterans' groups, the FBI, right-wing politicians,
and other reactionaries mounted an assault on them to drive them
out of their professions. This book discusses that partly
successful effort and the response of the radio personalities
involved. This book discusses commercial drama series such as The
Man Behind the Gun, network sustained shows such as those of Norman
Corwin, and government-produced programs such as the Uncle Sam
series. The book is largely based on the author's interviews with
Norman Corwin, Arthur Miller, Pete Seeger, Arthur Laurents, Art
Carney and dozens of others associated with radio during its Golden
Age. It also discusses public reaction to these broadcasts and the
issue of blacklisting. Words at War weaves together materials from
FBI files and materials from archives around the country, including
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the National
Archives and a dozen university special collection libraries, to
tell how the nation used a unique broadcast genre in a time of
national crisis. Readers in the era of the current World Trade
Center terrorism crisis will be particularly interested to read
about censorship, scapegoating, and the government's role in
disseminating propaganda and other issues that have once again
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