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 1930sIn 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'...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Examines how Hollywood responded to and reflected the political and social changes that America experienced during the 1930sIn 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.Topics covered include:How Hollywood offered positive representations of working womenCongressional investigations of big-studio monopolization over movie distributionHow three different types of musical genres related in different ways to the Great Depression - the Warner Bros Great Depression Musicals of 1933, the Astaire/Rogers movies, and the MGM 'kids' musicals of the late 1930sThe problems of independent production exemplified in King Vidor's Our Daily BreadCary Grant's success in developing a debonair screen persona amid Depression conditionsContributors Harvey G. Cohen, King's College LondonPhilip John Davies, British LibraryDavid Eldridge, University of HullPeter William Evans, Queen Mary, University of LondonMark Glancy, Queen Mary University of LondonIna Rae Hark, University of South CarolinaIwan Morgan, University College LondonBrian Neve, University of BathIan Scott, University of ManchesterAnna Siomopoulos, Bentley UniversityJ. E. Smyth, University of WarwickMelvyn Stokes, University College LondonMark Wheeler, London Metropolitan University |
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| title_auth | Hollywood and the Great Depression American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s |
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| title_exact_search_txtP | Hollywood and the Great Depression American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s |
| title_full | Hollywood and the Great Depression American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s Iwan Morgan, Philip John Davies |
| title_fullStr | Hollywood and the Great Depression American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s Iwan Morgan, Philip John Davies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hollywood and the Great Depression American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s Iwan Morgan, Philip John Davies |
| title_short | Hollywood and the Great Depression |
| title_sort | hollywood and the great depression american film politics and society in the 1930s |
| title_sub | American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s |
| topic | Film, Media & Cultural Studies PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production bisacsh Depressions 1929 United States Motion pictures History 20th century United States Motion pictures United States History 20th century Nineteen thirties Politics in motion pictures |
| topic_facet | Film, Media & Cultural Studies PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production Depressions 1929 United States Motion pictures History 20th century United States Motion pictures United States History 20th century Nineteen thirties Politics in motion pictures |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748699933 |
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