Cold War, cool medium : television, McCarthyism, and American culture / Thomas Doherty.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Video rising -- A television genealogy -- Red and other menaces -- McCarthy : man, ism, and television -- 2. The Gestalt of the blacklist -- The blacklist backstory -- Pressure groups and pressure points -- Institutional practices -- 3. Controversial personalities -- The Goldbergs : the case of Philip Loeb -- I Love Lucy : the redhead and the blacklist -- 4. Hypersensitivity : the codes of television censorship -- Faye Emerson's breasts, among other controversies -- Amos 'n' Andy : Blacks in your living room -- 5. Forums of the air -- Egghead Sundays -- Direct address -- The Ike-onoscope -- 6. Roman circuses and Spanish inquisitions -- "Kefauver fever" : the Kefauver crime committee -- Hearings of 1951 HUAC-TV -- Wringing the neck of Reed Harris : the McCarthy committee's Voice of America hearings (1953) -- 7. Country and God -- I led 3 lives : "watch yourself, Philbrick!" -- Religious broadcasting -- Life is worth living : starring Bishop Fulton J. Sheen -- 8. Edward R. Murrow slays the dragon of Joseph McCarthy -- TV's number one glamour boy -- Murrow versus McCarthy -- The "good Tuesday" homily -- To be person-to-personed -- "A humble, poverty stricken Negress" : Annie Lee Moss before the McCarthy Committee -- McCarthy gets equal time -- 9. The Army-McCarthy hearings (April 22-June 17, 1954) -- Backstory and dramatis personae -- Gavel-to-gavel coverage -- Climax : "hove you left no sense of decency?" -- Denouement : reviews and postmortems -- 10. Pixies : homosexuality, anticommunism, and television -- Red fades to pink -- Airing the Cohn-Schine affair -- 11. The end of the blacklist -- The defenders : the blacklist on trial -- Point of order! : the Army-McCarthy hearings, the movie -- 12. Exhuming McCarthyism : the paranoid style in American television.