Hollywood and the Great Depression: American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s

ISBN-13: 9781474431927 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 296 str.

Iwan Morgan; Philip John Davies

Opis

This volume examines how the political, economic and social changes of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

Spis treści

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