Hollywood melodrama and the New Deal : public daydreams / / Anna Siomopoulos
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| Autore: |
Siomopoulos Anna <1969-, >
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| Titolo: |
Hollywood melodrama and the New Deal : public daydreams / / Anna Siomopoulos
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (167 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43/6581 |
| 791.436581 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Melodrama in motion pictures |
| New Deal, 1933-1939, in motion pictures | |
| Motion pictures - Political aspects - United States | |
| Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Hollywood melodrama and the New Deal |
| ISBN: | 1-280-66247-6 |
| 9786613639400 | |
| 0-203-12764-1 | |
| 1-136-46398-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790397303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Routledge advances in film studies ; ; 13.