Radical Hollywood

Radical Hollywood
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Total Pages : 460
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ISBN-10 : 1565848195
ISBN-13 : 9781565848191
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Download or read book Radical Hollywood written by Paul Buhle and published by . This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A controversial and fascinating rewriting of the history of cinema's golden age. 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 stillsRadical 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.


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