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Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies Book
A revealing and affectionate account of the personal and political lives of the left-wing screenwriters, directors, and actors behind Hollywood's Golden Age. The first comprehensive book about Hollywood's future blacklistees and the hundreds of films they wrote or directed from the dawn of sound movies to the early 1950s, Radical Hollywood traces the political and personal lives of the activists along with the often-decisive impact of their work upon American film's Golden Age. A highly readable, anecdotal history, featuring an insert of classic film stills, , Radical Hollywood describes the story-behind-the-story of such famous films as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Casablanca, and Woman of the Year, alongside such campy items as The Adventures of Captain Marvel, Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror, and Kiss the Blood off My Hands. Genres like crime and women's films, family cinema, war, animation and, above all, film noir are reconsidered here, with fresh evidence drawn from interviews and recent archival breakthroughs. A long-awaited rediscovery of an overlooked intellectual-artistic milieu, , Radical Hollywood will interest all film-lovers and devotees of political culture. 16 pages b/w photographs. Films discussed include: The Adventures of Captain Marvel The Big Clock Body and Soul Back Door to Heaven Blues in the Night Cabin in the Sky Caged Casablanca Champion Deadline at Dawn Destry Rides Again The Devil-Doll Diplomaniacs Dynamite Frankenstein G. I. Joe Give Us This Day Gun Crazy High Noon Hitler's Children Hold That Ghost Honky Tonk Keeper of the Flame Kiss the Blood off My Hands Kitty Foyle Lassie, Come Home The Lawless Life with Father The Long Night The Maltese Falcon The Man Who Reclaimed His Head Marked Woman Mayor of Hell Meet the People Mission to Moscow Monsieur Verdoux Mr. Smith Goes to Washington None but the Lonely Heart Our Vines Have Tender Grapes Phantom Lady The Philadelphia Story A Place in the Sun The President's Mystery Pride of the Marines The Public Enemy Ruthless The Sea Hawk Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror Stella Dallas Stormy Weather The Story of G.I. Joe Talk of the Town Theodora Goes Wild The Thin Man Thirty Seconds over Tokyo A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Watch on the Rhine The Wizard of Oz Woman of the YearRead More
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- 1565847180
- 9781565847187
- Paul Buhle, David Wagner
- 1 January 2002
- The New Press
- Hardcover (Book)
- 460
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