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Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture
Paper, 320 pages, 43 photos
ISBN: 978-0-231-12953-4
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October, 2003
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I. Video Rising
A Television Genealogy
Red and Other Menaces
McCarthy: Man, Ism, and Television
II. The Gestalt of the Blacklist
The Blacklist Backstory
Pressure Groups and Pressure Points
Institutional Practices
III. Controversial Personalities
The Goldbergs: the Case of Philip Loeb
I Love Lucy: the Redhead and the Blacklist
IV. Hypersensitivity: The Codes of Television Censorship
Faye Emerson's Breasts, Among other Controversies
Amos 'n' Andy: Blacks in Your Living Room
V. Forums of the Air
Egghead Sundays
Direct Address
The Ike-onoscope
VI. Roman Circuses and Spanish Inquisitions
"Kefauver Fever": The Kefauver Crime Committee Hearings of 1951
HUAC-TV
Wringing the Neck of Reed Harris: The McCarthy Committee Voice of America Hearings of 1953
VII. Country and God
I Led 3 Lives: "Watch Yourself Philbrick!"
Religious Broadcasting
Life Is Worth Living: Starring Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
VIII. Edward R. Murrow Slays The Dragon of Joseph McCarthy
TV's Number One Glamour Boy
Murrow Versus McCarthy
The "Good Tuesday" Homily
To Be Person-to-Personed
"A Humble, Poverty Stricken Negress": Annie Lee Moss Before the McCarthy Committee
McCarthy Gets Equal Time
IX. "The Speaktacular": the Army-McCarthy Hearings, April 22-June 17, 1954
Backstory and Dramatis Personae
Gavel to Gavel Coverage
Climax: "Have You No Sense of Decency?"
Denouement: Reviews and Post-Mortems
X. Pixies: Homosexuality, Anti-Communism, and Television
Red Fades to Pink
Airing the Cohn-Schine Affair
XI. The End of the Blacklist
The Defenders: The Blacklist on Trial
Point of Order!: The Army-McCarthy Hearings, the Movie
XII. Exhuming McCarthyism: the Paranoid Style in American Television