The Guardian • McCarthy era
Issue #2179
Claudia Jones (1915-1964)
Claudia Jones an Afro-Caribbean woman born in the British West Indies (Trinidad) was a Communist activist in the US until her deportation in 1955 to...
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Issue #2181
Spartacus: Sword, sandals and … anti-McCarthyism?
Although made in 1960, Spartacus is seen as a classic, a cut above the ‘men in togas’ movies of the sword-and-sandals boom of the ’50s...
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Issue #2203
The Front at fifty
Fifty years on, The Front (1976), starring Woody Allen, is especially relevant with the Trump administration’s crackdown on freedoms taken for granted in the United...
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Issue #2154
Classic film: Salt of the Earth
Salt of the Earth (1954), is a unique and politically groundbreaking piece of American cinema. It blends neorealism, social critique (including of racism and sexism),...
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