Looking over the Subject of interest for the week, reading some Dashiell Hammett.
What can one say about the writings of Samuel Dashiell Hammet, The Sam Spade detective novelist, screenwriter and much more?. Hammet was born and died, like most
people of course, the interesting parts fall between the two points. The interesting parts in ones life are sometimes what we have left behind. Dashiell Hammet left behind more than
a few interesting stories and within them character. Nick and Nora his Thin Man characters living in a world of crime, guns, dark corners and foggy nights. A writing style of American language made of tough talking detectives who believes it' bad business to let a partner's killer go free. Hammett studies the character, gives them realistic words coming out of there cigaret hanging mouths, that breathed life exiling out.
He had style, mean streets with realism and authenticity. The odd assortment of character, based on people whom he met. He wrote such classic lines as:
" He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works."
"My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey wrench into the machinery."
“Who shot him?” I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said, “Somebody with a gun.”
In the end we all want to escape to a some other place, a world of both realism and unreal events. The mixture of facts and detection all within the dreamworld, Hammett's world
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Saturday, May 4, 2013
The Red Channels
Welcome, this is my first post under my Twitter "Subject of interest" for the weekend:
The Red Channels-
Often overlooked, the graylist, like the Blacklist of the Hollywood community became targets as their jobs and outlooks, because of national politics.
The HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) Other than the Targeted Hollywood industry professionals, named as communist before this Committee, there was the unnamed. The graylist contained names, as screenwriter Howard Koch, actor Marsha Hunt and musician Pete Seeger.
As the Blacklist was created in 1947, and the Hollywood 10 cited for contempt, the Motion Picture Association, give a statement. MPA- forthwith will dichage or suspend with out compensation and not re-employ any of the ten, until acquitted, and declared under oath not to be a Communist.
The greater role of the MPA and affiliates is not to knowing employ a Communist or party member, or likewise group member.
The blacklist was only the 10, initially in 1950 this list had grown to people who appeared before the the Committee and did not cooperate and those that were now identified by others, by people who now refused to "name names".
The graylist became loss of employment because of political affiliation.
Red Channels was one that singled out elements in Hollywood, often with little real
incriminating evidence, published their names than circulate. Their names on this smear publication made one effectively graylisted.
Like the Hollywood 10, the graylisted could appear before the Committee to clear their name from affiliation with the 10.
Maybe the real representational change becomes more the vilified as the Communist threat and the view of art and the artist over politics.
A persons reputation is that persons view created by media and politics.
Pete Seeger is, after all is said and has been done to his reputation is nothing less than a cultural icon. Being a cultural icon does cast a view on the subject of reputation.
The graylist with the name Marsha Virginia Hunt, asked to denounce her activities by the Committee, refused. Nothing more than her support for liberal ideals and her name in the publication of Red Channels, afterwards work became not so easy to come by.
The processes of stereotyping and labeling a person, adversely affected consequences
do spread through simple association. The Panic moving in a community goes beyond consequence. As a Gay spots figure could have consequences, that of sponsorship and advertisers who pull sponsorship. Activist can not control widespread indiscriminate stigma. Association do cause individuals to be punished by affiliation, under suspicion.
Once a person is labeled others see them as dangerous as abnormal and try not to be labeled or named themselves.
To be stigmatized by moral panic, targeted for discrimination and for public deliberation by pure association, even casual association has a experience social divide.
As norms and conformity is maintained by stigma and that association, by otherwise law-abiding citizens who are now characterized as "devils" and evil deviants.
The norms is sustained when the high becomes the low, the pubic acclaim is stricken from the records, enforcing social norms on people with subversive ideologies.
The witches of Salem and the Red Scare, form the conservative politicians who created the stereotyped communist as un-patriotic and danger to the dominant groups.
The Witch hunts and blacklist that created the stigma to enforce the norm, became the danger to American society.
To create public fear, by moral panics with intent to damaged employment prospects, as mechanism for punishment, this affects us all.
Reference: Red Channels List
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist#The_Red_Channels_list
The Red Channels-
Often overlooked, the graylist, like the Blacklist of the Hollywood community became targets as their jobs and outlooks, because of national politics.
The HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) Other than the Targeted Hollywood industry professionals, named as communist before this Committee, there was the unnamed. The graylist contained names, as screenwriter Howard Koch, actor Marsha Hunt and musician Pete Seeger.
As the Blacklist was created in 1947, and the Hollywood 10 cited for contempt, the Motion Picture Association, give a statement. MPA- forthwith will dichage or suspend with out compensation and not re-employ any of the ten, until acquitted, and declared under oath not to be a Communist.
The greater role of the MPA and affiliates is not to knowing employ a Communist or party member, or likewise group member.
The blacklist was only the 10, initially in 1950 this list had grown to people who appeared before the the Committee and did not cooperate and those that were now identified by others, by people who now refused to "name names".
The graylist became loss of employment because of political affiliation.
Red Channels was one that singled out elements in Hollywood, often with little real
incriminating evidence, published their names than circulate. Their names on this smear publication made one effectively graylisted.
Like the Hollywood 10, the graylisted could appear before the Committee to clear their name from affiliation with the 10.
Maybe the real representational change becomes more the vilified as the Communist threat and the view of art and the artist over politics.
A persons reputation is that persons view created by media and politics.
Pete Seeger is, after all is said and has been done to his reputation is nothing less than a cultural icon. Being a cultural icon does cast a view on the subject of reputation.
The graylist with the name Marsha Virginia Hunt, asked to denounce her activities by the Committee, refused. Nothing more than her support for liberal ideals and her name in the publication of Red Channels, afterwards work became not so easy to come by.
The processes of stereotyping and labeling a person, adversely affected consequences
do spread through simple association. The Panic moving in a community goes beyond consequence. As a Gay spots figure could have consequences, that of sponsorship and advertisers who pull sponsorship. Activist can not control widespread indiscriminate stigma. Association do cause individuals to be punished by affiliation, under suspicion.
Once a person is labeled others see them as dangerous as abnormal and try not to be labeled or named themselves.
To be stigmatized by moral panic, targeted for discrimination and for public deliberation by pure association, even casual association has a experience social divide.
As norms and conformity is maintained by stigma and that association, by otherwise law-abiding citizens who are now characterized as "devils" and evil deviants.
The norms is sustained when the high becomes the low, the pubic acclaim is stricken from the records, enforcing social norms on people with subversive ideologies.
The witches of Salem and the Red Scare, form the conservative politicians who created the stereotyped communist as un-patriotic and danger to the dominant groups.
The Witch hunts and blacklist that created the stigma to enforce the norm, became the danger to American society.
To create public fear, by moral panics with intent to damaged employment prospects, as mechanism for punishment, this affects us all.
Reference: Red Channels List
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist#The_Red_Channels_list
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