| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Hide in Plain Sight: The Hollywood Blacklistees in Film and Television, 1950–2002. By Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner. (New York: Palgrave, 2003. xxiv, 328 pp. $27.95, ISBN 1-4039-6144-1.)

They were martyrs and victims, but to Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner they also were heroes. The famous group of blacklistees also may prove to be victors. Triumphant in terms of Buhle and Wagner's belief in their ultimate influence on film and television, the blacklistees were barred from 1947 to the late 1950s from working throughout the entertainment industry because of their alleged or admitted left-wing or Communist affiliations. Their stories have been widely documented, often most admirably by Buhle and Wagner themselves. The contribution of Hide in Plain Sight to this history derives from its argument about the pervasive influence of these radicals upon more than five decades of filmmaking and television. In this concluding book of their trilogy about Hollywood radicalism, the authors maintain the blacklistees shaped "the models afterward for artists who took the dramatization of troubling issues, as well the urging of social reform, to be a natural part of their work" (p. xiii). Such lasting influence suggests the irony that the blacklistees won after all, transforming suppression into victory and, perhaps, validating the fears of those who hated them for their creativity and politics.

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