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AFTER CERTAINTY

Person

Steven Englund

Historian of Hollywood politics documenting persecution and accommodation under blacklist pressure.

Why this matters

Englund helps read entertainment's authority structures when fear rewrites careers.

Focus in observatory

Works

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The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960

Ceplair, Larry, and Steven Englund. *The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960*. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1980.

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