LEADER 05637nam 22005772 450 001 9910792834903321 005 20170511151801.0 010 $a1-4744-2674-3 010 $a1-4744-1402-8 010 $a0-7486-9993-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780748699933 035 $a(CKB)3710000001156117 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780748699933 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001816332 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5013812 035 $a(DE-B1597)614131 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780748699933 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001156117 100 $a20170302d2016|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aHollywood and the Great Depression $eAmerican film, politics and society in the 1930s /$fedited by Iwan Morgan and Philip John Davies$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aEdinburgh :$cEdinburgh University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (vi, 288 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 May 2017). 311 $a0-7486-9992-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $g1 :$tThe political history of classical Hollywood : moguls, liberals and radicals in the 1930s/$rMark Wheeler --$g2 :$tColumbia Pictures and the Great Depression : a case study of political writers in Hollywood /$rIan Scott --$g3 :$tOrganization women and belle rebels : Hollywood's working women in the 1930s /$rJ.E. Smyth --$g4 :$tThe congressional battle over motion picture distribution, 1936-1940 /$rCatherine Jurca --$g5 :$tShirley Temple and Hollywood's colonialist ideology /$rIna Rae Hark --$g6 :$tAstaire and Rogers : carefree in Roberta /$rPeter William Evans --$g7 :$tThe 'awful truth' about Cary Grant /$rMark Glancy --$g8 :$tFootlight parade : the New Deal on screen /$rHarvey G. Cohen --$g9 :$tOur daily bread : 'cooperation', 'independence', and politics in mid-1930s cinema /$rBrian Neve --$g10 :$tEmbodying the state : masculine transformation in Hollywood films of the New Deal era /$rAnna Siomopoulos --$g11 :$t'We're only kids now, but someday... : Hollywood musicals and the Great Depression 'youth crisis /$rDavid Eldridge --$g12 :$tChaplin's Modern Times : the reception of the film in the US, France, and Britain /$rMelvyn Stokes --$g13 :$tJohn Ford's Young Mr Lincoln : a popular front hero for the late 1930s /$rIwan Morgan. 330 $aExamines how Hollywood responded to and reflected the political and social changes that America experienced during the 1930s.

In the popular imagination, 1930s Hollywood was a dream factory producing escapist movies to distract the American people from the greatest economic crisis in their nation's history. But while many films of the period conform to this stereotype, there were a significant number that promoted a message, either explicitly or implicitly, in support of the political, social and economic change broadly associated with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programme. At the same time, Hollywood was in the forefront of challenging traditional gender roles, both in terms of movie representations of women and the role of women within the studio system. With case studies of actors like Shirley Temple, Cary Grant and Fred Astaire, as well as a selection of films that reflect politics and society in the Depression decade, this fascinating book examines how the challenges of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.

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