Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-201) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Making movies -- Watching movies -- Politics and the film industry -- Approach, avoidance, and accommodation: movies and the Great Depression -- The movies and World War II -- The Cold War and Vietnam in film -- Aspiration, disillusionment, and ambivalence: politics and politicians in film.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Films have been a part of U.S. society for a century--a source of great enjoyment for the audience and of great profit to filmmakers. How does a mass entertainment medium deal with some of the great sources of dramatic real-life political and economic conflict--the Great Depression, the Cold War--in a way that attracts an audience without making it angry? How does an industry, which has from its beginnings been the subject of attacks from social, political and religious groups deal with political issues and conflicts? This book is an attempt to examine these questions; it is also an examination o.
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Title
Politics and politicians in American film.
International Standard Book Number
9780275960711
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Motion pictures-- Political aspects-- United States.