Left of Hollywood: Cinema, Modernism, and the Emergence of U.S. Radical Film Culture

by Chris Robe

In the 1930s as the capitalist system faltered, many in the United States turned to the political Left. Hollywood, so deeply embedded in capitalism, was not immune to this shift. Left of Hollywood offers the first book-length study of Depression-era Left film theory and criticism in the United States. Rob studies the development of this theory and criticism over the course of the 1930s, as artists and intellectuals formed alliances in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029273753X
• ISBN13: 9780292737532
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"