The Hollywood social problem film : madness, despair, and politics from the Depression to the fifties / Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy.
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| Other Authors |
Purdy, Jim,
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| Subjects |
California -- Los Angeles -- Hollywood.
Cinéma -- Aspect social -- États-Unis. Cinéma -- Scénarios -- Histoire et critique. Film. Gesellschaftskritik. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History. Los Angeles- Hollywood. Motion picture plays, American -- History and criticism. Motion picture plays, American. Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States. Motion pictures -- Social aspects. United States. |
| Description |
x, 364 pages, [5] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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| Copyright Date |
1981.
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| Notes |
Filmography: pages 331-351.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-329). |
| Contents |
The system breaks down : the individual as victim, 1930-1933 -- Protypes : gangsters, fallen women, and convicts -- The shysters -- The populists -- or who's afraid of the big bad wolf? -- Desperation -- Hollywood turns to the right -- From despair to recovery : Warner Brothers and FDR -- The system upheld : the individual redeemed, 1933-1941 -- Unemployment -- doing your part -- Hollywood and the worker -- Rural problems -- The juvenile delinquent and society -- The ex-con and society -- Different problems, same solutions -- Native fascists -- lynching and legions -- Frank Capra's super-shyster and little people -- More plutocrats and would-be dictators -- International fascism -- from pacifism to war -- The postwar world -- Readjustment -- "nervous from the service" -- The minorities -- More neurosis -- alcoholism and insanity -- Postwar labor problems -- The individual and society : darker views of the postwar world -- HUAC and the end of an era -- Conclusion : Sullivan's travels -- Hollywood goes slumming.
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| Genre |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History. |
| Geographic Area |
United States
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| Network Numbers |
(OCoLC)6555872
(OCoLC)ocm06555872 |
| WorldCat | Search OCLC WorldCat |
| WorldCat Identities | Roffman, Peter, 1950-
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