Cynthia B Meyers - Advertising, the Red Scare, and the Blacklist:

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Cynthia B. Meyers
Cinema Journal, vol. 55(4), 2016, pp. 55-83

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Meyers, C. B. (2016). Advertising, the Red Scare, and the Blacklist: BBDO, US Steel, and Theatre Guild on the Air, 1945-52. Cinema Journal, 55(4), 55–83.

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Meyers, Cynthia B. “Advertising, the Red Scare, and the Blacklist: BBDO, US Steel, and Theatre Guild on the Air, 1945-52.” Cinema Journal 55, no. 4 (2016): 55–83.

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Meyers, Cynthia B. “Advertising, the Red Scare, and the Blacklist: BBDO, US Steel, and Theatre Guild on the Air, 1945-52.” Cinema Journal, vol. 55, no. 4, 2016, pp. 55–83.

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@article{cynthia2016a,
  title = {Advertising, the Red Scare, and the Blacklist: BBDO, US Steel, and Theatre Guild on the Air, 1945-52},
  year = {2016},
  issue = {4},
  journal = {Cinema Journal},
  pages = {55-83},
  volume = {55},
  author = {Meyers, Cynthia B.}
}

Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, the top “institutional” (or corporate image) advertising agency of the 1940s, oversaw the drama-anthology radio program Theatre Guild on the Air (1945–1953) for US Steel to improve its client’s public image at a time of labor strikes and antitrust actions. Drawing on archival sources, I integrate analysis of institutional advertising strategies, particularly the need for tight associations between sponsors and programs, into a reconsideration of the struggle over casting control—or blacklisting—on Theatre Guild on the Air during the postwar Red Scare.