Locarno Curator: Blacklist 'Was a Plague,' Lessons From Past Intolerance

Ehsan Khoshbakht, curator of a Locarno Film Festival retrospective, reflects on the Hollywood blacklist as a destructive period of intolerance. He argues that examining this history offers crucial lessons about censorship and political pressure in the arts. The discussion highlights how past abuses inform present debates on freedom of expression.

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