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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken : Francis,
Taylor & amp ;
2012.
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| Colección: | Routledge advances in film studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Public Daydreams" and the New Deal; 1. Scarface over the White House: The New Deal and the Political Gangster Film; 2. "With Every Step and Every Breath I Took": Mass Culture, Embodied Citizenship, and the Mob Violence Film of the 1930s; 3. "I Didn't Know Anyone Could Be so Unselfi sh": The Welfare State, Consumer Citizenship, and King Vidor's Stella Dallas; 4. "I Know I Done Wrong; I've Done Repent": Black Nationalism, the New Deal, and The Emperor Jones.
- 5. The Doubleness of "Indemnity": The Welfare State and 1940s Insurance NoirConclusion: Towards a Political Theory of Melodrama; Notes; Bibliography; Index.