Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies

Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies

460 pages
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Published: 1 May 2002
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ISBN: 9781565847187

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: The New Press

Publication date: 1 May 2002

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Radical Hollywood is the first comprehensive history of the Hollywood Left. From the dawn of sound movies to the early 1950s, Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner trace the political and personal lives of the screenwriters, actors, directors, and producers on the Left and the often decisive impact of their work upon American film’s Golden Age.Full of rich anecdotes, biographical detail, and explorations of movies well known, unjustly forgotten, and delightfully bizarre, the book is “an intelligent, well argued and absorbing examination of how politics and art can make startling and often strange bedfellows” (Publishers Weekly). Featuring an insert of rare film stills, Radical Hollywood relates the story behind the story of films in such genres as crime, women’s films, family cinema, war, animation, and, particularly, film noir.