Elia Kazan vs. The House Un-American Activities Committee

Hollywood is a master of history of revisionists, especially when history is itself. The crucial moment of Hollywood and American history was a series of parliamentary hearings held by the House Non-American Activity Committee (HUAC) headed by Senator Joseph McCarthy from the late 1940s to the early 1950s. To exclude American Communism from the surface. Hollywood is closely related to HUAC's hearing, but one of the most eye-catching goals is film and play director, Area Kazan.

Production of "On the Waterfront" seemed to prove Elia Kazan's action in front of the Non-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Behind the thin mask of his low budget movie, Kazan showed his resonance in naming the government. Through award-winning script and elite actor's actor, Kazan made this iconic film trying to preserve his good name in an important position in his career. On the surface, it is a very powerful drama "on the waterfront". This movie seems to focus on large - scale corruption issues related to unionism. The film was placed in a dock in New York and showed that union workers are working to make meat. It shows an inequitable and steel-like leader who treats his workers respectfully and unpopularly to the audience. To make matters worse, the mobs have fingers sticking to the whole league.

The House Non - American Activity Committee was established as an anti - communist organization in 1938, McCarthy 's accusations exacerbated political tension at the time. The delusive pursuit of an intruder known as McCarthyism is very difficult for writers and celebrities, many of which are known as sympathy of communism and can not continue to work. Passports of some people were deprived and others were sentenced as refusing to disclose the names of other Communists. These trials have been widely published and often ruined by unfounded allegations. Dashiell Hammett, Waldo Salt, Lillian Hellman, Lena Horne, Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Charlie Chaplin for famous artists accused of Communist empathy or invited by the Committee , Group Theater's Clifford Odets Area Kazan and Stella Adler