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Radical Hollywood
The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies
by Paul Buhle and David Wagner
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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.
About the authors:
Paul Buhle is a retired senior lecturer in the American studies department at Brown University. He is a co-author, with Dave Wagner, of Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies and the editor of Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form, Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation, and A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman, all published by The New Press. Buhle is the founder of the Oral History of the American Left archive at New York University and a co-editor of The Encyclopedia of the American Left. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and has continued actively producing books of comic art, including Yiddishkeit: Jewish Vernacular and the New Land and Bohemians: A Graphic History.Dave Wagner is a journalist and critic who lives in Tempe, Arizona. He was a contributor to Tender Comrades, co-author of A Very Dangerous Citizen, and has contributed to several film journals. He was political editor at the Arizona Republic from 1993 to 2000.
Press Reviews:
"Spectacularly informative." ―National Review
"A highly readable, affectionate history that invites a new appreciation of our most distinctly American cultural creations." ―Z Magazine
"A bounty of fun facts about a flood of movies from the 1930s and 1940s." ―Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
See the publisher website: The New Press
> From the same authors:
Tender Comrades (2012)
A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist
by Patrick McGilligan and Paul Buhle
Subject: History of Cinema
A Very Dangerous Citizen (2002)
Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left
by Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner
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