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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462357003321

Autore

Siomopoulos Anna <1969-, >

Titolo

Hollywood melodrama and the New Deal : public daydreams / / Anna Siomopoulos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-280-66247-6

9786613639400

0-203-12764-1

1-136-46398-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in film studies ; ; 13

Disciplina

791.43/6581

791.436581

Soggetti

Melodrama in motion pictures

New Deal, 1933-1939, in motion pictures

Motion pictures - Political aspects - United States

Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Public Daydreams" and the New Deal; 1. Scarface over the White House: The New Deal and the Political Gangster Film; 2. "With Every Step and Every Breath I Took": Mass Culture, Embodied Citizenship, and the Mob Violence Film of the 1930s; 3. "I Didn't Know Anyone Could Be so Unselfi sh": The Welfare State, Consumer Citizenship, and King Vidor's Stella Dallas; 4. "I Know I Done Wrong;  I've Done Repent": Black Nationalism, the New Deal, and The Emperor Jones

5. The Doubleness of "Indemnity": The Welfare State and 1940s Insurance NoirConclusion: Towards a Political Theory of Melodrama; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

While many critics have analyzed the influence of the FDR administration on Hollywood films of the era, most of these studies



have focused either on New Deal imagery or on studio interactions with the federal government. Neither type of study explores the relationship between film and the ideological principles underlying the New Deal. This book argues that the most important connections between the New Deal and Hollywood melodrama lie neither in the New Deal iconography of these films, nor in the politics of any one studio executive. Rather, the New Deal figures prominently i