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Solidarity in a Divided Hollywood: From the Blacklist to Today's Hollywood Strikes

The second of a two-part conversation

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A swarm of picketers take part in the WGA strike on June 21, 2023

A swarm of picketers take part in the WGA strike on June 21, 2023. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

How do the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes of today echo the Hollywood Blacklist of the 1950s? The second of a two-part conversation led by Ben Mankiewicz.

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Sunday, August 13, 2023

About the Program

How do the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes of today echo the Hollywood Blacklist of the 1950s? This conversation continues to examine how the studios' response to labor struggles and union demands, both then and now, poses a possible existential threat to the entertainment industry itself. Will solidarity amongst (and within) the unions make the difference this time around?  

Hosted by film critic and host of Turner Classic Movies Ben Mankiewicz, panelists scheduled to appear include:

  • Miranda Banks, Chair of Film, Television, and Media Studies at LMU, and author of The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild
  • Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator, SAG-AFTRA
  • Jonathan Handel, Entertainment/technology attorney, journalist, and author of Hollywood on Strike!: An Industry at War in the Internet Age 
  • Eric Haywood, Writer-Director, WGA Negotiating Committee
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