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A new kind of public : community, solidarity, and political economy in New Deal cinema,1935-1948 / by Graham Cassano.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cassano, Graham, author.
- Series:
- Studies in critical social sciences ; Volume 69.
- Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 1573-4234 ; Volume 69
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Deal, 1933-1939, in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (227 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In 1936, director John Ford claimed to be making movies for “a new kind of public” that wanted more honest pictures. Graham Cassano’s A New Kind of Public: Community, solidarity, and political economy in New Deal cinema, 1935-1948 argues that this new kind of public was forged in the fires of class struggle and economic calamity. Those struggles appeared in Hollywood productions, as the movies themselves tried to explain the causes and consequence of the Great Depression. Using the tools of critical Marxism and cultural theory, Cassano surveys Hollywood’s political economic explanations and finds a field of symbolic struggle in which radical visions of solidarity and conflict competed with the dominant class ideology for the loyalty of this new audience.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: A Sociological Approach to New Deal Cinema
- Black Fury (1935) and RiffRaff (1936)
- My Man Godfrey (1936)
- Swing Time (1936)
- The Hurricane (1937)
- Ginger Rogers and the (Hollywood) Proletarian Imaginary, 1939–1941
- John Ford, From Radical Critique to the White Garrison State, 1940–1948
- Epilogue: Psycho (1960) and the New Domestic Gaze
- References
- Films Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-27696-3
- OCLC:
- 879567609
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004276963 DOI
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