LEADER 03487oam 2200697I 450 001 9910790397303321 005 20230126211043.0 010 $a1-280-66247-6 010 $a9786613639400 010 $a0-203-12764-1 010 $a1-136-46398-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203127643 035 $a(CKB)2670000000203458 035 $a(EBL)958631 035 $a(OCoLC)798530505 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000677853 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11365495 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000677853 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10694596 035 $a(PQKB)10538074 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC958631 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL958631 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10566722 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL363940 035 $a(OCoLC)795124237 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000203458 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHollywood melodrama and the New Deal $epublic daydreams /$fAnna Siomopoulos 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (167 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge advances in film studies ;$v13 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-88293-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a5. The Doubleness of "Indemnity": The Welfare State and 1940s Insurance NoirConclusion: Towards a Political Theory of Melodrama; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aWhile many critics have analyzed the influence of the FDR administration on Hollywood films of the era, most of these studies have focused either on New Deal imagery or on studio interactions with the federal government. Neither type of study explores the relationship between film and the ideological principles underlying the New Deal. This book argues that the most important connections between the New Deal and Hollywood melodrama lie neither in the New Deal iconography of these films, nor in the politics of any one studio executive. Rather, the New Deal figures prominently i 410 0$aRoutledge advances in film studies ;$v13. 606 $aMelodrama in motion pictures 606 $aNew Deal, 1933-1939, in motion pictures 606 $aMotion pictures$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States 606 $aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 615 0$aMelodrama in motion pictures. 615 0$aNew Deal, 1933-1939, in motion pictures. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects 676 $a791.43/6581 676 $a791.436581 700 $aSiomopoulos$b Anna$f1969-,$01573038 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790397303321 996 $aHollywood melodrama and the New Deal$93848561 997 $aUNINA