Music History, Film Music & Musicals, Richard Barrios

While remaining always respectful to the movie and the people who made it, the author lays bare the behind-the-scenes tumult, elevating the book from a typical making-of story to something really... — BooklistMore…

Barrios knows this material inside out, which allows him to step back to make often inspired observations — The New York TimesMore…

Richard Barrios's survey of the genre dives vividly into all its contradictions, its seemingly accidental triumphs, and its most effortful, well-meant failures. He knows the litany of films... — The TelegraphMore…

This lively, intelligent and well-researched survey tells the tumultuous and often delightfully absurd saga of the film industry's frantic, disaster-laced efforts in the late 1920's and early... — The New York TimesMore…