| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.2

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*On Strike and On Film: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War America*. By Ellen Baker. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv + 349 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $59.95, cloth; $22.50, paper.)
In April 1954, when a local movie house premiered Salt of the Earth (Herbert J. Biberman), the Sudbury nickel mining community lined up for over two blocks to catch the film. They had to be quick, for within two days the movie was shut down. The theatre owner, under a threat from the local chamber of commerce, decided it was not worth the aggravation. Little wonder—the film, its crew, and the union, International Mine Mill and Smelter Workers, were no match against the onslaught of the Cold War propaganda they faced.	1
The movie depicts a strike at Empire Zinc Company in Grant County, New Mexico, that began in October 1950, and lasted for over a year. The story the movie tells and the strike that it portrays are the focus of Ellen Baker's book.	. . .

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