Film and politics in America : a social tradition /

This study looks at the social and political nature of American film by concentrating on a generation of writers who directed films in Hollywood in the 1940s. The author discusses how they negotiated their roles and to what extent their experience of the 1930s was reflected in their later films.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neve, Brian
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
Series:Studies in film, television, and the media.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Out of the thirties
  • 2. Populism, romanticism and Frank Capra
  • 3. Liberals, radicals and the wartime agenda
  • 4. Post-war Holly wood
  • 5. Post-war : new directors and structures
  • 6. Film noir and society
  • 7. Into the fifties
  • 8. The sixties.