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Roosevelt's New Deal introduced sweeping social, political and
cultural change across the United States, which the Hollywood film
community embraced enthusiastically. When the heady idealism of the
1930s was replaced by the paranoia and fear of the post-war years,
Hollywood became an easy target for the anti-communists. A Divided
World examines some of the important programs of the New Deal and
the subsequent response of the Hollywood film community -
especially in relation to social welfare, women's rights and
international affairs. The book then charts what happened in
Hollywood when the mood turned sour as the Cold War set in. A
Divided World also provides in-depth analysis of the major works of
three European directors in particular - Billy Wilder, Ernst
Lubitsch and Fritz Lang. The contributions of these three are
compared and contrasted with the products of mainstream Hollywood.
The author utilizes extensive new archival material to shed light
on the production histories of the emigres' films. This is a new
interpretation of an influential period in American film history
and it is sure to generate debate and further scholarship.
Few directors of the 1930s and 40s were as distinctive and popular
as Preston Sturges, whose whipsmart comedies have entertained
audiences for decades. This book offers a new critical appreciation
of Sturges' whole oeuvre, incorporating a detailed study of the
last ten years of his life from new primary sources. Preston
Sturges details the many unfinished projects of Sturges' last
decade, including films, plays, TV series and his autobiography.
Drawing on diaries, sketchbooks, correspondence, unpublished
screenplays and more, Nick Smedley and Tom Sturges present the
writer-director's final years in more detail than we've ever seen,
showing a master still at work - even if very little of that work
ultimately made it to the screen or stage.
In this insightful study of Hollywood cinema since 1969, film
historian Nick Smedley traces the cultural and intellectual
heritage of American films, showing how the more thoughtful recent
cinema owes a profound debt to Hollywood's traditions of
liberalism, first articulated in the New Deal era. Although
American cinema is not usually thought of as politically or
socially engaged, Smedley demonstrates how Hollywood can be seen as
one of the most value-laden of all national cinemas. Drawing on a
long historical view of the persistent trends and themes in
Hollywood cinema, Smedley illustrates how films from recent decades
have continued to explore the balance between unbridled
individualistic capitalism and a more socially engaged liberalism.
He also brings out the persistence of pacifism in Hollywood's
consideration of American foreign policy in Vietnam and the Middle
East. His third theme concerns the treatment of women in Hollywood
films, and the belated acceptance by the film community of a wider
role for the American post-feminist woman. Featuring important new
interviews with four of Hollywood's most influential
directors--Michael Mann, Peter Weir, Tony Gilroy, and Paul
Haggis--"The Roots of Modern Hollywood "is an incisive account of
where Hollywood is today and the path it has taken to get there.
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