Tag Archives: Dashiell Hammett

namin’ names: red scares

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Dave

1952. Of the House Un-American Activities Committee and then Richard Nixon’s rise from there to the vice-presidency, of the black-listing of movie people, of the people like Elia Kazan and Robert Taylor, and Clifford Odets who went before the committee … Continue reading →

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huac and scoundrel times: he admired the china birds

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Dave

The House Un-American Activities Committee. HUAC. Many believed in the Communist menace, and many thought McCarthy’s inquisitorial techniques were as good as those on any radio or television show. 1952. Lillian Hellman. She did a hard thing when others were … Continue reading →

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flitcraft parables

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Samuel Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961)! In this issue of the “Creative living for Tacoma” magazine—somewhat oddly, produced in Seattle—City Arts took a look at the period in Hammett’s life where … Continue reading →

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PESSIMISM AT THE OK CORRAL

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Dave

Do we blow up the ranch and burn the town or just take it over and run it into the ground? There has been a tendency in the discipline of film studies to treat the Western as ideological and, hence, … Continue reading →