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Celebrity Activism in the Vietnam War Era: How Cultural Icons Brought Antiwar Politics to Popular Mediums and Transformed U.S. Political Culture.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Celebrity Activism in the Vietnam War Era: How Cultural Icons Brought Antiwar Politics to Popular Mediums and Transformed U.S. Political Culture./
Author:	King, Sarah C.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	398 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-02A.
Subject:	American history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13880485
ISBN:	9781085630092

Celebrity Activism in the Vietnam War Era: How Cultural Icons Brought Antiwar Politics to Popular Mediums and Transformed U.S. Political Culture.
King, Sarah C.

Celebrity Activism in the Vietnam War Era: How Cultural Icons Brought Antiwar Politics to Popular Mediums and Transformed U.S. Political Culture. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 398 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 2019.

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Celebrity Activism in the Vietnam War Era explores the work of celebrities who opposed the American war in Vietnam. It demonstrates that antiwar celebrities not only contributed their fame to public protest, but also incorporated politics into popular mediums. This dissertation analyzes how these culture figures, working with other artists and activists, brought left-wing political comment to the mediums of popular music, television, military entertainment, and film. The dissertation argues that, by re-introducing left-wing politics to popular culture, antiwar celebrities made left-wing celebrity activism an enduring element of American political culture, a significant feat in the wake of mid-century blacklisting and McCarthyism.In the 1960s and 1970s, left-wing celebrities asserted their right to political participation and took their place alongside right-wing celebrities who had monopolized the celebrity-politics nexus since the advent of the blacklist. Singers in the folk music revival lent their celebrity to civil rights and antiwar events, while also incorporating political comment into their songwriting, recordings, and performances. On television, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour featured Tom and Dick Smothers bantering, singing, and acting in sketches with left-wing themes. The show also welcomed left-wing celebrities like Pete Seeger as guests, becoming a platform for celebrities to voice their opposition to the war. In 1971, the FTA show brought antiwar politics to live military entertainment. Organized by A-list actors Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland, the FTA show toured military towns, denouncing the war, racism, and sexism, and providing a stark alternative to comedian Bob Hope's yearly USO show. Finally, beginning in 1972, Fonda, through the Indochina Peace Campaign, and actor Warren Beatty, as part of Democrat George McGovern's presidential campaign, brought their celebrity to the realm of electoral politics. After the war, these two actors separately brought left-wing politics to mainstream Hollywood films, demonstrating that the political surge of the 1960s and 1970s did not disappear with the end of the Vietnam War. This dissertation thus helps explain how left-wing celebrities, in the wake of the blacklist, became influential political figures-as campaign supporters, activists, and political comedians.

ISBN: 9781085630092Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122692
American history.
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Activism

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