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

About this book

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 films 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 womens films family cinema war animation and particularly film noir.