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Reelpolitik - Political Ideologies in '30s and '40s Films (Hardcover)
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Reelpolitik - Political Ideologies in '30s and '40s Films (Hardcover)
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The movies that document American history during the interwar years
still hold relevance today. While we may be put off by the corny
sentimentality popular at the time, we feel attracted, despite our
1990s veneer of sophistication, to healthy portions of
unadulterated American spirit. Americans resist encumbering
themselves with political labels, Kelley asserts, content to remain
simultaneously fragmented between elitism and populism,
isolationism and interventionism even today, yet remain somehow
united by a fundamental essence they can't quite define but readily
recognize as the American can-do attitude. Using the unique vantage
point of eight classic American movies--Mr. Smith Goes to
Washington, Magnificent Ambersons, Gabriel Over the White House,
Citizen Kane, Casablanca All Quiet on the Western Front, Daily
Bread, and The Fountainhead--Kelley and her colleagues explore the
political ideologies thrumming through the American psyche. The
stock market crash and ensuing depression proved a defining
experience. For the first time, the national psyche was sent
careening toward alien political ideologies; the seductiveness of
communism and fascism took hold in the wreckage wrought by the
Depression. American foreign policy likewise fluctuated from the
isolationist stance adopted after fighting the "war to end all
wars" to an interventionist response to the intensifying pressure
to vanquish communist and fascist bullies. Students, scholars, and
the general public will find intriguing insights on a period of
national catastrophe and triumph.
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