Hollywood and the Great Depression: American film, politics and society in the 1930s

Examines how Hollywood responded to and reflected the political and social changes that America experienced during the 1930s.<p>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 n...

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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Morgan, Iwan W. 1949- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2016
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Zusammenfassung:Examines how Hollywood responded to and reflected the political and social changes that America experienced during the 1930s.<p>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.
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Umfang:1 online resource (vi, 288 pages)
ISBN:9780748699933