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Ghettoes, tramps, and welfare queens : down & out on the silver screen / Stephen Pimpare.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.P63 P56 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pimpare, Stephen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poor in motion pictures.
- Homeless persons in motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--United States--History.
- Motion pictures.
- United States.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Contents:
- Part I In the Ghetto: Poor Places and the People in Them
- 1 The Evils of the City 3
- 2 Modem Gangs and Ghetto Gurls 25
- 3 The Urban Hellscape 43
- 4 Social Workers and Charity Reformers 50
- 5 Welfare Queens 74
- 6 Teachers to the Rescue 87
- 7 The Architecture of Poverty 99
- 8 Escaping the City: Rural Poverty 117
- Part II On the Street, On the Road: Poor Out of Doors
- 9 The First Tramp 139
- 10 The Last Free Tramp and the Hobo Played for Laughs 159
- 11 Impostor Tramps 170
- 12 Forgotten Men 182
- 13 The Depression Through the Eyes of a Clever Child 215
- 14 The Modern Tramp: Villains 223
- 15 The Modern Tramp: Victors 239
- 16 The Modern Tramp: Victims 247
- 17 Women and Children Last 270.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Pimpare, Stephen author. Ghettoes, tramps, and welfare queens.
- ISBN:
- 9780190660727
- 0190660724
- OCLC:
- 967202647
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