03507oam 2200709I 450 991081905670332120240516201859.01-280-66247-697866136394000-203-12764-11-136-46398-410.4324/9780203127643 (CKB)2670000000203458(EBL)958631(OCoLC)798530505(SSID)ssj0000677853(PQKBManifestationID)11365495(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000677853(PQKBWorkID)10694596(PQKB)10538074(MiAaPQ)EBC958631(Au-PeEL)EBL958631(CaPaEBR)ebr10566722(CaONFJC)MIL363940(OCoLC)795124237(EXLCZ)99267000000020345820180706d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHollywood melodrama and the New Deal public daydreams /Anna Siomopoulos1st ed.New York :Routledge,2012.1 online resource (167 p.)Routledge advances in film studies ;13Description based upon print version of record.0-415-88293-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Jones5. The Doubleness of "Indemnity": The Welfare State and 1940s Insurance NoirConclusion: Towards a Political Theory of Melodrama; Notes; Bibliography; IndexWhile 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 iRoutledge advances in film studies ;13.Melodrama in motion picturesNew Deal, 1933-1939, in motion picturesMotion picturesPolitical aspectsUnited StatesMotion picturesSocial aspectsUnited StatesMelodrama in motion pictures.New Deal, 1933-1939, in motion pictures.Motion picturesPolitical aspectsMotion picturesSocial aspects791.43/6581791.436581Siomopoulos Anna1969-,1684501MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819056703321Hollywood melodrama and the New Deal4056049UNINA