Hollywood and the Great Depression : American Film, Politics and Society in The 1930s [1 ed.] 9781474414029, 9780748699926

American Politics in Hollywood Film 9780748646289

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748612468); How is the American political landscape represented in cinema?

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Modernity and the Great Depression: The Transformation of American Society, 1930-1941 0700624007, 9780700624003

Order, planning, and reason--in the depths of the Great Depression, with the nation teetering on the brink of collapse,

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'Un-American' Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era 9780813543970

The concept of “un-Americanism,” so vital to the HUAC crusade of the 1940s and 1950s, was resoundingly revived in the em

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The Cultural Politics of Contemporary Hollywood Film: Power, Culture, and Society 0719082986, 9780719082986

Adopting and developing a 'cultural politics' approach, this comprehensive study explores how Hollywood movies

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American History and Contemporary Hollywood Film 9781474470841

Hollywood has a growing fascination with America's past. This is evidenced in the release of a rash of films of thi

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The American Dream In The Great Depression 0837194784, 9780837194783

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The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics 0684828146, 9780684828145

Most of us think of the 1970s as an "in-between" decade, the uninspiring years that happened to fall between t

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American Money and the Weimar Republic: Economics and Politics on the Eve of the Great Depression 9780231877886

Discusses America's foreign economic policy, specifically in relationship to Germany, leading up to the Great Depre

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Stealing the Show: African American Performers and Audiences in 1930s Hollywood 9780520964143

Stealing the Show is a study of African American actors in Hollywood during the 1930s, a decade that saw the consolidati

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Hollywood Riots: Violent Crowds and Progressive Politics in American Film 9780755694624, 9781780766324

The large literature about the politics of Hollywood in the period of McCarthy and the blacklist has largely overlooked

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