In the popular imagination, 1930s Hollywood was a dream factory
producing escapist movies to distract the American people from the
greatest economic crisis in their nation's history. But while many
films of the period conform to this stereotype, there were a
significant number that promoted a message, either explicitly or
implicitly, in support of the political, social and economic change
broadly associated with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal
programme. At the same time, Hollywood was in the forefront of
challenging traditional gender roles, both in terms of movie
representations of women and the role of women within the studio
system. With case studies of actors like Shirley Temple, Cary Grant
and Fred Astaire, as well as a selection of films that reflect
politics and society in the Depression decade, this fascinating
book examines how the challenges of the Great Depression impacted
on Hollywood and how it responded to them.
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