Encounter Books
Titles appearing in Art Book News Annual — February 2008
Red star over Hollywood; the film colony's long romance with the left. (reprint, 2005)
Radosh, Ronald and Allis Radosh.
Encounter Books, ©2006 309 p. $17.95 PN1998
1-59403-146-0
This is a paperbound edition of a 2005 book. In an attempt to set the record straight, according to their lights, regarding the McCarthy attacks in Hollywood half a century ago, Ronald Radosh (Hudson Institute) and writer Allis Radosh describe the influence of the Communist Party in the film industry over several decades. They trace Hollywood's connection to radicalism from the 1930s, and describe later interpretations of the Red Scare as well as recent activism in Hollywood that is rooted in the period. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
