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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
©2014.
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| Colección: | Studies in critical social sciences ;
v. 69. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 productions, as the movies themselves tried to explain the causes and consequence of the Great Depression. Using the tools of critical Marxism and cultural theory, Cassano surveys Hollywood's political economic explanations and finds a field of symbolic struggle in which radical visions of solidarity and conflict competed with the dominant class ideology for the loyalty of this new audience. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004276963 9004276963 1322514933 9781322514932 9789004275195 9004275193 |