Hollywood's new deal / Giuliana Muscio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muscio, Giuliana.

Series:

Culture and the moving image.

Culture and the moving image

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Political aspects--United States.

Motion pictures.

New Deal, 1933-1939.

Motion pictures--Economic aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite the economic hardship of the thirties, people flocked to the movies in unprecedented numbers. At the same time, the Roosevelt Administration was trying to implement the New Deal and increase the influence and power of the federal government. Weaving together film and political history, Giuliana Muscio traces the connections between Depression Era Hollywood and the popularity of FDR, asserting that politics transformed its public into spectators while the movie industry transformed its spectators into a public. Hollywood's New Deal reveals the ways in which this reciproca

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The New Deal and the Media; 2. Hollywood and Washington; 3. Cinema and the New Deal; 4. The Film Industry in the Thirties; 5. The Paramount Case; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-248) and index.

ISBN:

9786612701139

9781282701137

1282701134

9781439904824

1439904820

OCLC:

652654422