Good Night and Good Luck

Prior to the January 12 film showing at Oberlin Public Library, Alison Ricker read from the introduction to Readings on Fahrenheit 451, to provide the historical context of McCarthyism and Ray Bradbury's response to that era through his writing. Good Night and Good Luck, our second film in the F451 Film Series, explores the persecution by Senator McCarthy of suspected communists and communists sympathizers. The similar themes in the stories of the celebrated 1950s journalist Edward R. Murrow and Bradbury's futurist fiction gave the audience much to ponder.