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How does the play 'The Crucible' reflect Arthur Miller's experiences with the HUAC?
Technically, Arthur Mille wrote 'The Crucible' before his own personal experiences with the HUAC (House Committee on Un-American Activities). He wrote 'The Crucible' in 1953, after Elia Kazan (who directed 'Death of a Salesman' 4 years earlier) was questioned by the HUAC about links to the Communist party. Feeling pressured, Kazan named names of people he believed to be associated with the Communists. After speaking the Kazan, Miller wrote the 'The Crucible.' In it, Miller compared the HUAC questioning to the witch hunt in Salem in 1692, where a young woman, out of jealousy and rage, accuses her lover's wife of witchcraft. Using the town's fear to her advantage, she accuses many more of being witches, and they are hanged. People of Salem become afraid of speaking out against her, as it will surely lead to also being named a witch.
Random house publisher bennett cerf replaced poet Louis untermeyer on what game show after the later was fingered by huac as a red?
What's My Line?"
How did the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) affect filmmaking?
Some people affected by these activities lost their standing and careers in film making. Others found ways around the inquiries, and depending on their value systems, were able to continue to work in the industry. Many college theses and dissertations have been written about the effect of the HUAC on the content of movies made between about 1925 and the 1980s -- defending, documenting and analyzing cold-war themes.
Why were the Hollywood ten blacklist?
The so-called Hollywood Ten were movie industry professionals who were convicted of contempt of Congress after they refused to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Because they would not divulge names and information about Communists in the film studios, they were imprisoned for a year in 1950. Worse, they were placed on the "blacklist" of authors, actors, and directors and were refused work by the studio heads. This was an effort by Hollywood to placate lawmakers during the Red Scare, to avoid restrictive legislation and unfavorable publicity. Some managed to find work through sympathetic friends, but they could not be given official credit for their efforts. It was not until the late 1950's that the blacklist lost its hold as the "studio system" in Hollywood was phased out.
When did movie rating begin?
Movie ratings are now around 80 years old. There's a very good article about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Production_Code The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) actually began in 1922 according to their website (www.mpaa.org/aboutUs.Asp) to self-regulate, self-censor (they don't like to admit that) and approve movie content through a very strict code. In fact it was the organization that decided that even characters who were married couples were to have separate beds on screen, in part because the actors themselves were not married in most cases and there would be an appearance of impropriety.... Originally there as only an approved and not approved (became the "X" rating, X being only for sexual content). You either made movies according to the code, or threw out the scenes that violated the code, or you didn't get approved. There were some odd results. According to the Wikipedia article, Warner Brothers was unable to make films exposing Nazi concentration camps because the code barred on screen violence, nakedness and the like prevalent in the camps. After the war when newsreels came back with the reality of what had been going on, there was a mood change, although the 1950s had other issues in the form of the HUAC (House Unamerican Activities Committee) that attemped to hunt down "communists", many of whom were thought to reside in Hollywood..... The code survived through the 1950s. In the 1960s Jack Valenti, as then President, concocted the beginnings of our present-day "rating system" that first included "R", so that there could be minor sexual activity and theoretically were age restricted. It was all to gain wider audiences for movies in part because of the stigma that an X rating gave to a film (and one reason why the "adult" film industry responded with the XX and XXX ratings), and to move away from the strict code. And this opened the door to more "risque" movies at the box office. But one of the battles was over on-screen violence -- physical or otherwise -- originally not allowed under the code. It was allowed in "R" films and some parents objected. There were even lawsuits over it claiming the violence was traumatizing. Eventually Valenti caved and R came to include violence in general, and now there's even an NC-17 that suggests the film isn't obscene (per the mpaa website) but "most parents" wouldn't allow their children to see even if they were present...... Over the years the rating program has changed. Ostensibly to provide "guidance" to parents, it has the effect of ensuring the widest possible "appropriate" audiences for a agiven film that in turn supports box office receipts for the movie industry (it's better to get a PG-13 than an R for example because then you get the 12 and under group without parents being required to be present even if there are sexual themes and some violence....). It continues to avoid imposition of governmental censorhip on the movie industry. I've actually seen unaccompanied kids escorted out of R films. But if you read the current rating program (http://www.mpaa.org/FlmRat_Ratings.asp), I think after a while you might start to get confused as to where each one begins and each one ends. Kinda like the "color code" system for Homeland Security?
What did huac do?
the question is what didn't the huac do
What options did people called before the HUAC have?
People called before the HUAC (aka the House of Un-American Activities Committee) were given two options: speak in defense of themselves or let the Committee come to a verdict without a hearing.
What does HUAC stand for?
HUAC was the House Un-American Activities Committee.
What are three facts about HUAC?
The HUAC was used to find citizens in United States with Nazi ties. It was established in 1938 under the leadership of Martin Dies. The House Judiciary Committee was transferred the functions of HUAC on the abolishment of HUAC in 1975.
What is a huac?
The HUAC is the House Committee on Un-American Activities. This is a committee found in the United States of America.
Who ran HUAC?
hiya
Who ran the HUAC?
hiya
What group of writes refused to answer the questions of huac?
The writers who refused to answer questions in front of the HUAC committee were known as the Hollywood Ten.
Which industry did HUAC launch its first major attack against?
The HUAC launched its first major attack against Hollywood.
What was the H.U.A.C.?
THE HUAC-- an overviewThe HUAC was the House Un-american Activties Committee, it was responsible for the destruction of all unamerican things.
Who subpoenaed Abbie Hoffman?
HUAC
What is HUAC and what did it set out to do in the 1940s and 1950s?
HUAC was the House Committee on Un-Amercan Activities. It was created to investigate disloyal and subversive organizations, such as Fascism Nazism and Communism. Largely associated with McCarthyism, HUAC set out to investigate and convict peole of holding left-wing (communism) views. In 1947, HUAC began blacklisting Hollywood actors and producers.
