Hollywood and the Great Depression (eBook, ePUB)

American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s
Redaktion: Morgan, Iwan; Davies, Philip John

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the popular imagination, 1930s Hollywood was a dream factory producing escapist movies to distract the American people from the greatest economic crisis in their nation's history. But while many films of the period conform to this stereotype, there were a significant number that promoted a message, either explicitly or implicitly, in support of the political, social and economic change broadly associated with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programme. At the same time, Hollywood was in the forefront of challenging traditional gender roles, both in terms of movie representations of women and the role of women within the studio system. With case studies of actors like Shirley Temple, Cary Grant and Fred Astaire, as well as a selection of films that reflect politics and society in the Depression decade, this fascinating book examines how the challenges of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474414029
• Artikelnr.: 50401853

Autorenporträt

Professor Iwan Morgan is Professor of US Studies and Commonwealth Fund Professor of American History, University College London. Philip John Davies is Professor in American Studies at De Montfort University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Hollywood and the Great Depression
Iwan Morgan Section I: Hollywood Politics and Values 1: The Political History of Classical Hollywood: Moguls
Liberals and Radicals
Mark Wheeler 2: Columbia Pictures and the Great Depression: A Case Study of Political Writers
Ian Scott 3: Organization Women and Belle Rebels: Hollywood's Working Women in the 1930s
J.E. Smyth 4: The Congressional Battle over Motion Picture Distribution
1936-1940; Catherine Jurca Section II: Stars 5: Shirley Temple and Hollywood's Colonialist Ideology
Ina Rae Hark 6: Astaire and Rogers: Carefree in Roberta
Peter William Evans 7: The 'Awful Truth' About Cary Grant
Mark Glancy Section III: Movies 8: Footlight Parade: The New Deal on Screen
Harvey G. Cohen 9: Our Daily Bread: 'Cooperation'
'Independence'
and Politics in Mid-1930s Cinema
Brian Neve 10: Embodying the State: Federal Architecture and Masculine Transformation in Hollywood Films of the New Deal Era
Anna Siomopoulos 11: 'We're Only Kids Now
But Someday ... : Hollywood Musicals and the Great Depression 'Youth Crisis
David Eldridge 12: Chaplin's Modern Times: The Reception of the Film in the US
France
and Britain
Melvyn Stokes 13: John Ford's Young Mr Lincoln: A Popular Front Hero for the Late 1930s
Iwan Morgan Contributors and Editors