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Blue-collar Hollywood :

0801871492

9780801871498

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Blue-collar Hollywood :

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liberalism, democracy, and working people in American film /

John Bodnar

xxxiv, 284 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-275) and index

Introduction: mass culture and American political traditions -- Political cross-dressing in the Thirties -- The people's war -- War and peace at home -- Beyond containment in the Fifties -- The people in turmoil -- Liberalism at the movies: a conclusion

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"In Blue-Collar Hollywood, John Bodnar examines the ways in which popular American films made between the 1930s and the 1980s depicted working-class characters, comparing these cinematic representations with the aspirations of ordinary Americans and the promises made to them by the country's political elites. Based on close and imaginative viewings of dozens of films from every genre - among them Public Enemy, Black Fury, Baby Face, The Grapes of Wrath, It's a Wonderful Life, I Married a Communist, A Streetcar Named Desire, Peyton Place, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Coal Miner's Daughter, and Boyz N the Hood - this book explores such topics as the role of censorship, attitudes toward labor unions and worker militancy, racism, the place of women in the workforce and society, communism and the Hollywood blacklist, and faith in liberal democracy."--Jacket

Blue-collar Hollywood.

Motion pictures-- United States-- History

Working class in motion pictures

Arbeidersklasse

Cinéma-- États-Unis-- 1929-1945-- Histoire et critique

Cinéma-- États-Unis-- 1945-1960-- Histoire et critique

Cinéma-- États-Unis-- 1960-1990-- Histoire et critique

Classe ouvrière-- Au cinéma

Politieke attituden

Bodnar, John E.,1944-

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