1. What effects did the Hollywood Blacklist have on the industry, and how were the lives of workers and their families affected by it? And, where do you see the fears of being publicly disparaged or betrayed, instigated by the Blacklist and the Red Scare, arising in eitherThe Big KnifeorThe Sweet Smell of Success?

2.What are some of the major characteristics of The Western, and how are issues of race typically represented in Westerns? And, in eitherHigh NoonorThe Searchers,how are the characteristics of the Western being presented, and how is race being represented?