About the Author

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.

Reviews

"When it comes to the films, [Buhle and Wagner] have taken their own advice: "when in doubt, see the movie". Which they do, with a wicked sense of humour that should comfort the ghost of many a blacklisted talent." - The Guardian "It is a tale of frustrated talents and lost opportunities... Buhle and Wagner have given that story a human face." - The Financial Times "Buhle and Wagner are both scholarly and democratic in their interests, moving easily from the tackiest B-movie to Casablanca. They reveal a Hollywood founded in liberalism..." - The Scotsman "Buhle and Wagner may not have set out to write a subtext for our times, just an authorative and lively primer to a rancid age, but some bonuses come resonantly free." - The Observer"