Hide in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950-2002

by Paul M. Buhle, Dave Wagner

Hidden in Plain Sight completes Buhle and Wagner's trilogy on the Hollywood blacklist. When the blacklistees were hounded out of Hollywood, some left for television where many worked on children's shows like "Rocky and Bullwinkle." A number wrote adult sitcoms such as The Donna Reed Show , and M*A*S*H while some of them ultimately returned to Hollywood and made great films such as Norma Rae , and Midnight Cowboy . This is a thoughtful look at the aftermath of the horror that was the McCarthy period from two expert historians of the blacklist period.

Genres: History, Film

352 pages, Hardcover

First published August 23, 2003

About the author

Now retired as Senior Lecturer at Brown University, Paul Merlyn Buhle is the author or editor of 35 volumes including histories of radicalism in the United States and the Caribbean, studies of popular culture, and a series of nonfiction comic art volumes.