Hollywood and the Great Depression

American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930s

296 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Kunst Darstellende Künste Film, Kino Technische Kenntnisse und Hintergrundwissen
• ISBN: 9780748699926
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.10.2016
• Größe: 236 x 119 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Herausgegeben von: Iwan Morgan, Philip John Davies