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

Hide in Plain Sight offers a powerful examination of the effects of Hollywoods blacklist era taking up the question of how blacklistees fared after they were driven out of the mainstream. A good number entered careers in television with many finding work in childrens and family programs writing for shows like Rocky and Bullwinkle Lassie and Flipper. Many also wrote adult sitcoms such as Hogans HeroesThe Donna Reed Show The Dick Van Dyke Show M*A*S*H Maude and All in the Family. Ultimately many returned to Hollywood in the sixties and seventies to work creatively on films that contained a dose of the radical politics found in communism films that influenced the creative outburst of that decade. The list of impressive films from the survivors of HUAC includes Bridge on the River Kwai Lawrence of Arabia and Midnight Cowboy. Hide in Plain Sight completes Paul Buhle and Dave Wagners trilogy which includes Tender Comrades (1998) and Radical Hollywood (2002). Together these books provide a thorough and disturbing portrait of the McCarthy eras impact on an important aspect of American culture and society.