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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Bryan Cranston stars as Dalton Trumbo in Jay Roach’s Trumbo, a Bleecker Street release. PHOTO COURTESY HILLARY BRONWYN GALE

REVIEW: “Trumbo” highlights Hollywood’s past of blacklisting

Caroline Aaron November 19, 2015

In the mid-20th century, a streak of anti-communist paranoia swept the United States as it entered the Cold War. This time of fearful conservatism proved deadly to Hollywood, where liberal filmmakers'...

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