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

Examines how Hollywood responded to and reflected the political and social changes that America experienced during the 1

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

Examines how Hollywood responded to and reflected the political and social changes that America experienced during the 1

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

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

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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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Using an innovative syncretic ‘cultural politics’ approach drawing on political theory, film studies and sociology, this

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This is a standard account of the economic collapse and slow recovery of the 1930s, a series of events which had a profo

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