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Index
Cover
Half title
Series Page
Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Video Rising
A Television Genealogy
Red and Other Menaces
McCarthy: Man, Ism, and Television
2. The Gestalt of the Blacklist
The Blacklist Backstory
Pressure Groups and Pressure Points
Institutional Practices
3. Controversial Personalities
The Goldbergs: The Case of Philip Loeb
I Love Lucy: The Redhead and the Blacklist
4. Hypersensitivity: The codes of Television Censorship
Faye Emerson’s Breasts, Among Other Controversies
Amos ’n’ Andy: Blacks in Your Living Room
5. Forums of the Air
Egghead Sundays
Direct Address
The Ike-onoscope
6. 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’s Voice of America Hearings (1953)
7. Country and God
I Led 3 Lives: “Watch Yourself, Philbrick!”
Religious Broadcasting
Life Is Worth Living: Starring Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
8. 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
9. The Army-McCarthy hearings (April 22–June 17, 1954)
Backstory and Dramatis Personae
Gavel-to-Gavel Coverage
Climax: “Have You Left No Sense of Decency?”
Denouement: Reviews and Postmortems
10. Pixies: Homosexuality, Anticommunism, and Television
Red Fades to Pink
Airing the Cohn-Schine Affair
11. The End of the Blacklist
The Defenders: The Blacklist on Trial
Point of Order!: The Army-McCarthy Hearings, the Movie
12. Exhuming McCarthyism: The Paranoid Style in American Television
Notes
Index
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