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This film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor in a Leading Role.
Good Night, and Good Luck: attack on McCarthyism simplifies but satisfies
Good Night, and Good Luck: attack on McCarthyism simplifies but satisfies
George Clooney’s film of the battle between journalist Edward R Murrow and senator Joseph McCarthy is Hollwood’s revenge on the 1950s witch-hunts
McCarthyism, name given to the period of time in American history that saw U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin produce a series of investigations and hearings during the 1950s in an effort to expose supposed communist infiltration of various areas of the U.S. government. The term has since become a byname for defamation of character or reputation by means of widely publicized indiscriminate allegations, especially on the basis of unsubstantiated charges.
................Close analysis and discussion focuses on Good Night, and Good Luck’s construction, content and language: its function within the ‘docudrama’ genre; its black and white aesthetic; inclusion of archival footage and documented speeches; dual-dialogue, improvised scenes, verisimilitude; and television screens as a metatextual motif..........
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When Senator Joseph McCarthy begins his foolhardy campaign to root out Communists in America, CBS News impresario Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) dedicates himself to exposing the atrocities being committed by McCarthy's Senate "investigation."
When Senator Joseph McCarthy begins his foolhardy campaign to root out Communists in America, CBS News impresario Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) dedicates himself to exposing the atrocities being committed by McCarthy's Senate "investigation."
Murrow quote
“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men–not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.”
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