Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood : : Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism / / Jennifer Frost.
Before Liz Smith and Perez Hilton became household names in the world of celebrity gossip, before Rush Limbaugh became the voice of conservatism, there was Hedda Hopper. In 1938, this 52-year-old struggling actress rose to fame and influence writing an incendiary gossip column, “Hedda Hopper’s Holly...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American History and Culture ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction.
- Escape from Altoona
- 1. The Making of a Celebrity Gossip
- A Columnist Is Born
- Gilding Hollywood’s “Golden Age”
- Publicity and Right-Wing Politics
- 2. Readers, Respondents, and Fans
- Crafting Columns, Creating Community
- Reading Hopper, Writing Hedda
- Hollywood Gossip as Public Sphere
- 3. Hopper’s Wars
- Prewar Isolationist to Cold Warrior
- Civil Liberties in Times of War
- Chasing Charlie Chaplin
- 4. Cold War Americanism, Hopper Style
- Selling Americanism
- Fighting the “Un-Americans”
- 5. Blacklisting Hollywood “Reds”
- Establishing the Hollywood Blacklist
- Hedda’s Black (and Gray) List
- Enforcement Efforts
- 6. Representing Race in the Face of Civil Rights
- An Oscar for Uncle Remus
- In Defense of Mammy
- Presenting Poitier
- 7. “Family Togetherness” in Fifties Hollywood
- Hopper’s “Home Life and Good Citizenship”
- The Sinatra Situation
- The Liz-Debbie-Eddie Incident
- 8. Taking on “Hollywood Babylon”
- A Career’s End
- Reporting on a Fading Hollywood System
- From Old to New Right
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author