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How forty-one women―including Dorothy Parker, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Lena Horne―were forced out of American television and radio in the 1950s “Red Scare.” At the dawn of the Cold War era, forty-one women working in American radio and television were placed on a media blacklist and forced from their industry. The ostensible reason: so-called Communist influence. But in truth these women―among them Dorothy Parker, Lena Horne, and Gypsy Rose Lee―were, by nature of their diversity and ambition, a threat to the traditional portrayal of the American family on the airwaves. This book from Goldsmiths Press describes what American radio and television lost when these women were blacklisted, documenting their aspirations and achievements. Through original archival research and access to FBI blacklist documents, The Broadcast 41 details the blacklisted women's attempts in the 1930s and 1940s to depict America as diverse, complicated, and inclusive. The book tells a story about what happens when non-male, non-white perspectives are excluded from media industries, and it imagines what the new medium of television might have looked like had dissenting viewpoints not been eliminated at such a format

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Author

Carol A. Stabile

Publisher

Goldsmith's Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781912685424

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, American Studies

Rating

4.4 / 5 (12 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14