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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"HUAC"”.
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Elia Kazan controversy: past, present and future
… the House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) meant to Americans and the entertainment industry in the 1950s and in present times, and to determine what these meanings may suggest for artists and society in the future. That there is a thread that connects the past to the present and that …
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Defining ‘Un-Americanism’ in Culture and Art: The Dies Committee’s Investigation of the Federal Theatre Project
… the House Un-American Activities Committee’s (HUAC) expansive definition of ‘Un-Americanism’ through the body’s 1938 investigation of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP). The committee, then known as the Dies Committee after its chairman Martin Dies (D-TX), publicly presented the hearings as an …
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The changing face of Joan of Arc: the appropriation of Joan of Arc in twentieth-century American theatre
… to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC); Joan of Arc the woman, which investigates Joan of Arc's treatment as the proto-type for the feminist movement; and, Joan of Arc the survivor, which presents modern, imaginative retellings of the Joan of Arc legend that revolve around the …
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"Propaganda for Democracy": The Vexed History of the Federal Theatre Project
<p>My thesis explores and analyzes the Federal Theater Project’s cultural and political impact during the Depression, as well as the contested legacy of this unique experiment in government-sponsored, broadly accessible cultural expression. Part of the New Deal’s Works Projects Administration, the …