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

Description

This is a revealing and affectionate account of the personal and political lives of the left-wing screenwriters, directors and actors behind Hollywood's Golden Age. Featuring an insert of rare film stills, the book relates the story-behind-the-story of such famous films as "Casablanca" and "Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror". A rediscovery of an overlooked intellectual-artistic milieu, the book is intended for all film-lovers and devotees of political culture.

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.

"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