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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784931003321

Autore

Muscio Giuliana

Titolo

Hollywood's new deal [[electronic resource] /] / Giuliana Muscio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 1997

ISBN

1-282-70113-4

9786612701139

1-4399-0482-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Culture and the moving image

Disciplina

302.23/43/0973

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Political aspects - United States

New Deal, 1933-1939

Motion pictures - Economic aspects - United States

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 (p. 201-248) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The New Deal and the Media; 2. Hollywood and Washington; 3. Cinema and the New Deal; 4. The Film Industry in the Thirties; 5. The Paramount Case; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Despite the economic hardship of the thirties, people flocked to the movies in unprecedented numbers. At the same time, the Roosevelt Administration was trying to implement the New Deal and increase the influence and power of the federal government. Weaving together film and political history, Giuliana Muscio traces the connections between Depression Era Hollywood and the popularity of FDR, asserting that politics transformed its public into spectators while the movie industry transformed its spectators into a public. Hollywood's New Deal reveals the ways in which this reciproca