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Larry Ceplair

Author of The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-60

9+ Works 111 Members 2 Reviews

About the Author

Larry Ceplair is professor emeritus of history at Santa Monica College.

Works by Larry Ceplair

The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-60 (1980) 34 copies

The Public Years of Sarah and Angelina Grimké: Selected Writings, 1835-1839 (1989) 21 copies

Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical (2014) 21 copies

The Marxist and the Movies: A Biography of Paul Jarrico (Screen Classics) (2007) 11 copies

Anti-Communism in Twentieth-Century America: A Critical History (2011) 10 copies

Under the Shadow of War (1987) 5 copies

A Great Lady: A Life of the Screenwriter Sonya Levien (1996) 4 copies

The Hollywood Motion Picture Blacklist: Seventy-Five Years Later (2022) 4 copies

Inquisizione a Hollywood: storia politica del cinema americano, 1930-1960 1 copy

Associated Works

Encyclopedia of the American Left (1990) — Contributor, some editions — 105 copies

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Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film… by Larry Ceplair

Lot of facts make it somewhat dry. Good overall history and prelude to the red-baiting blacklist time in Hollywood of late 40s and early 50s. I have owned this over ten years and finally read it!

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kslade | Dec 8, 2022 |

Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical (Screen… by Larry Ceplair

Very in depth to the point of dragging, but well researched.

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LynnK. | Aug 4, 2020 |

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Richard Wall Memorial Award

Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical (Finalist – 2016)

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Rating: 4.1

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ISBNs: 20

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