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Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner. Hide in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950–2002. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2004. Pp. xxiv, 328. $27.95.

This book is the last of Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner's three-volume history of the Hollywood Left. A Very Dangerous Citizen: Abraham Polonsky and the Hollywood Left (2001) examined the career of Hollywood Ten screenwriter Abraham Polonsky. Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story behind America's Movies (2002) traced Hollywood's Left intellectuals from the early 1930s until the blacklisting purges of 1947 and 1952. The third volume picks up the story "after the blacklist, when survivors began to find toeholds as individuals in the film industry in England, France, and Mexico and the television industry in New York and, under vastly different circumstances, in Spain, Italy, covertly from time to time, even in the back lots of Hollywood itself" (p. xix). Buhle and Wagner argue that the blacklist was more porous and the continued influence of the Hollywood Left more extensive than previously thought. Although they describe the wide-ranging cinematic efforts of radicals, the authors' most innovative contribution is their path-blazing account of how dozens of blacklisted or graylisted writers and directors found work in television and helped to shape the social conscience of the new medium during the 1950s, 1960s, and beyond. The TV Left succeeded in working Popular Front themes of democracy, anti-authoritarianism, and antifascism into their shows. By the end of the twentieth century, their "shadows continued to flicker in the press, the cultural journals, film revivals, even home videos—in short, everywhere that cinema [and television] continued to cast its influence" (p. 184).

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