Hollywood blacklist

Two major events in Hollywood history altered the direction of the filmmaking business in America. These events were known as the Paramount decision and the Hollywood Blacklist. Both had a significant impact on not only the way movies were produced, distributed and exhibited, but also affected people directly, such as screenwriters, actors, directors and musicians as well. In both cases, laws were being broken, and the rights of individuals were being violated. The shift in direction came…

The Paramount decision and the Hollywood blacklist took place during the time of the Golden Age of Hollywood and are often viewed as the fall of the studio system. During this time, studios had almost complete control over the entire film industry. They had total jurisdiction over all of the different aspects of filmmaking beginning with the development, all the way until the release of films. A great number of the biggest theaters were owned and run by the studios during this time. As for any…

The Paramount decision and the Hollywood blacklist were two pivotal events that were a product of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Both of these episodes had the ability to redirect the course of film making within Hollywood and the United States. In many ways, both of these events are cornerstone contributions that changed the course of filmmaking. The Paramount decision, also known as United States v. Paramount Pictures, was a landmark decision made by the supreme court. The court came to the…

The major influencers of the 1940’s and 1950’s American film scene were the landmark anti-trust case with Paramount and the initiation of the Hollywood blacklist. Beginning in the run-up to World War II and lasting until the 1960’s these two elements shaped the persona of film in the United States. These two events caused the direction of Hollywood to favor independent filmmakers, reduce Hollywood’s influence on the motion picture distribution and presentation chain and removed qualified actors,…

even mentioned during the Academy Awards after his death. To me that shows the influence the Hollywood management has on the industry as a whole. Both of these things major events leading up to Hollywood in the 1950’s I believe changed Hollywood forever. It made it so that like most business everyone really has an opportunity to be great, to make the film industry more of an art than a business. The blacklist altered the way filmmaking was done as the for that time period they used it as a way…

Leading up until the 1940’s during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the studio system ruled the film industry. The big studios such as Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, and RKO Radio Pictures owned their own theaters and controlled what was played at them. However due to many reasons, both the Golden Age of Hollywood and the studio system would come to an end. In 1948, the US Supreme Court issued a decision in the U.S. vs. Paramount Pictures antitrust lawsuit.…

era of Hollywood, the studios had monopoly control over the entire industrial process and revenue stream of the filmmaking business. The big studios raked in nearly all the movie industry’s total gross revenues, which benefited both the corporate interests profiting form the business and the filmmakers that were under contract with the studios. The Big Eight Studios held nearly all the power in the industry and the government didn’t like that. Around the time WWII broke out, Hollywood began…

ban people in Hollywood and restrict movies, in fear that the American people would intrust in certain communist ideas that went against America’s democracy. Regardless of the ways they attempted to abolish communism, their endeavor was indisputably against the first amendment, which allows and grants the American people the god given freedom of speech and allows them to discuss their political views and opinions. The censorship caused…

propaganda source: Hollywood. As a congressional committee known as the House Un-American Activities Committee, or the HUAC, began to investigate the loyalty of Hollywood actors, a small group, known as the “Hollywood Ten”, resisted the hearings. These Hollywood A-Listers quickly became blacklisted, and were convicted of obstructing justice by impeding the investigation, and served jail terms. Pressured by the U.S. Congress, the establishment in Hollywood started a blacklist policy, banning the…

and engaging in the defamation of one’s character. It is important that people stand up to this mentality to stop it before extensive damage can be done. This is clearly defined in The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Through Miller’s use of the Hollywood Blacklist along with the characterization of Abigail Williams and John Proctor, he establishes that theme that humans must stand up against mob mentality, in order to break the cycle of…