Andrew Quicke

Souls for Sale

Arts & Literature

“Terry Lindvall’s fascinating Souls for Sale shines a spotlight on the changing Hollywood scene in 1922—the year writer Rupert Hughes’s satirical treatment of traditional Christianity became a motion picture. Who better than Rupert Hughes, already notorious for his outspoken atheistic opinions, to mock Middle America by suggesting that Hollywood, the new film capital, had replaced the church as its most sacred place. . . . This book provides a fascinating background to the beginnings of censorship by the Production Code Administration. . . . I warmly welcome Lindvall’s new book, which explains how the culture wars began in Hollywood in the roaring twenties; it is an easy read.”