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A new kind of public : community, solidarity, and political economy in New Deal cinema,1935-1948 /

In 1936, director John Ford claimed to be making movies for "a new kind of public" that wanted more honest pictures. Graham Cassano's book argues that this new kind of public was forged in the fires of class struggle and economic calamity. Those struggles appeared in Hollywood product...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Cassano, Graham (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2014]
Series:	Studies in critical social sciences ; 69.
Subjects:	New Deal, 1933-1939, in motion pictures. Motion pictures > Political aspects > United States. Motion pictures > Social aspects > United States. Motion pictures > Political aspects. Motion pictures > Social aspects. United States. Film. New Deal. USA.

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