http://www.authentichistory.com › 1946-1960 › the cold war home front
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
http://www.history.fas.nyu.edu/docs/IO/19463/Baar.pdf
Happy reading, TayB!
1.What is popular culture?
2.How was post WWII popular culture affected by the Cold War? Did the Cold War “narrow” postwar popular culture and/or “distort and enfeeble” cultural expression? If so, how and in what ways?
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TayB, the sites I posted late last night are okay. I took a look at the history-assignment-help site that Steve posted. I'm not sure what good that really does, but if it helps you, by all means go for it. Here are some others that I think are more to the point:
http;//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/hollywood-ten
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/huac
Your question is about pop culture and artistic expression, so that's what I've tried to give you resources for. The "red scare" resulted in a lot of disruption in a lot of people's lives. Government employees were accused of having "leftist" sympathies and fired. Novels and pamphlets advised people to almost look under their beds (I exaggerate, but it was a saying at the time) for Communists.
On thing that is alluded to in these articles is that during the Great Depression of the 1930s, when life seemed very discouraging, many young artists and intellectuals explored alternative ideas to an economic system that seemed to have failed in the United States. Most later renounced communism after the totalitarian and brutal nature of Soviet communism became better known, but they were "grasping at straws" back in the day. They were exploring ideas. It came back to bite them when the "right wing" saw the communist threat from inside the United States, and used what many think were deplorable means to destroy people who might have flirted with ideas they didn't like. The "red scare" affected private businesses of all kinds, government employees, and the entertainment industry most famously.
http;//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/hollywood-ten
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/huac
Your question is about pop culture and artistic expression, so that's what I've tried to give you resources for. The "red scare" resulted in a lot of disruption in a lot of people's lives. Government employees were accused of having "leftist" sympathies and fired. Novels and pamphlets advised people to almost look under their beds (I exaggerate, but it was a saying at the time) for Communists.
On thing that is alluded to in these articles is that during the Great Depression of the 1930s, when life seemed very discouraging, many young artists and intellectuals explored alternative ideas to an economic system that seemed to have failed in the United States. Most later renounced communism after the totalitarian and brutal nature of Soviet communism became better known, but they were "grasping at straws" back in the day. They were exploring ideas. It came back to bite them when the "right wing" saw the communist threat from inside the United States, and used what many think were deplorable means to destroy people who might have flirted with ideas they didn't like. The "red scare" affected private businesses of all kinds, government employees, and the entertainment industry most famously.
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