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  title info:
    title: Hollywood and the Great Depression
    sub title: American film, politics and society in the 1930s
  name:
    name part: Davies, Philip
    name part: 1948-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Morgan, Iwan W.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: stk
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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 program. 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.
  table of contents: 1 : The political history of classical Hollywood : moguls, liberals and radicals in the 1930s/ Mark Wheeler -- 2 : Columbia Pictures and the Great Depression : a case study of political writers in Hollywood / 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 -- 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 -- 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 : 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.
  note: edited by Iwan Morgan and Philip John Davies.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Nineteen thirties
  subject:
    topic: Depressions
    temporal: 1929
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Social life and customs
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: PN1993.5.U65 H49 2016
  classification: 970.980
  identifier: 9780748699926
  identifier: 0748699929
  identifier: 9780748699933
  identifier: 9781474414029
  identifier: 0748699937
  identifier: 1474414028
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 160319
    record change date: 20170926151545.0
    record identifier: in00003714901