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Hollywood and the Great Depression - American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s (Paperback)
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Hollywood and the Great Depression - American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s (Paperback)
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Examines how Hollywood responded to and reflected the political and
social changes that America experienced during the 1930sIn 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.Topics covered
include:How Hollywood offered positive representations of working
womenCongressional investigations of big-studio monopolization over
movie distributionHow three different types of musical genres
related in different ways to the Great Depression the Warner Bros
Great Depression Musicals of 1933, the Astaire/Rogers movies, and
the MGM 'kids' musicals of the late 1930sThe problems of
independent production exemplified in King Vidor's 'Our Daily
Bread'Cary Grant's success in developing a debonair screen persona
amid Depression conditionsContributors Harvey G. Cohen, King s
College LondonPhilip John Davies, British LibraryDavid Eldridge,
University of HullPeter William Evans, Queen Mary, University of
LondonMark Glancy, Queen Mary University of LondonIna Rae Hark,
University of South CarolinaIwan Morgan, University College
LondonBrian Neve, University of BathIan Scott, University of
ManchesterAnna Siomopoulos, Bentley UniversityJ. E. Smyth,
University of WarwickMelvyn Stokes, University College LondonMark
Wheeler, London Metropolitan University
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