A new kind of public : : community, solidarity, and political economy in New Deal cinema,1935-1948 / / by Graham Cassano.
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...
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| Superior document: | Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 69 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014. ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in critical social sciences ;
Volume 69. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (227 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| 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. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004276963 |
| ISSN: | 1573-4234 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Graham Cassano. |