Hollywood and the Great Depression : American film, politics and society in the 1930s / edited by Iwan Morgan and Philip John Davies.
Publisher: Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press, 2016Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resource001: EBC5013812ISBN: 9781474414029 (e-book)Subject(s): Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Nineteen thirties | Depressions -- 1929 -- United States | United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hollywood and the Great Depression : American film, politics and society in the 1930s.DDC classification: 970.980 LOC classification: PN1993.5.U6 | .H655 2016Online resources: Click to View| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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.
Includes index.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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