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Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal : Public Daydreams.

While many critics have analyzed the influence of the FDR administration on Hollywood films of the era, most of these studies have focused either on New Deal imagery or on studio interactions with the federal government. Neither type of study explores the relationship between film and the ideologica...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Siomopoulos, Anna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Francis, Taylor & amp ; 2012.
Colección:Routledge advances in film studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:While many critics have analyzed the influence of the FDR administration on Hollywood films of the era, most of these studies have focused either on New Deal imagery or on studio interactions with the federal government. Neither type of study explores the relationship between film and the ideological principles underlying the New Deal. This book argues that the most important connections between the New Deal and Hollywood melodrama lie neither in the New Deal iconography of these films, nor in the politics of any one studio executive. Rather, the New Deal figures prominently in Hollywood melod.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (167 pages).
ISBN:9780203127643
0203127641