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Hollywood melodrama and the New Deal : public daydreams
- Title
- Hollywood melodrama and the New Deal : public daydreams / Anna Siomopoulos.
- Author
- Siomopoulos, Anna, 1969-
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2012.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 154 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Routledge advances in film studies ; 13
- Uniform Title
- Routledge advances in film studies ; 13.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: "public daydreams" and the New Deal -- Scarface over the White House: the New Deal and the political gangster film -- "With every step and every breath I took": mass culture, embodied citizenship and the mob violence film of the 1930s -- "I didn't know anyone could be so unselfish": the welfare state, consumer citizenship and King Vidor's Stella Dallas -- "I know I done wrong: I've done repent": black nationalism, the New Deal and The Emperor Jones -- The doubleness of "Indemnity": the welfare state and 1940s insurance noir -- Conclusion: towards a political theory of melodrama.
- Call Number
- MFL 13-3073
- ISBN
- 9780415882934 (alk. paper)
- 0415882931 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2011034701
- OCLC
- YBP 2011034701
- Author
- Siomopoulos, Anna, 1969-
- Title
- Hollywood melodrama and the New Deal : public daydreams / Anna Siomopoulos.
- Imprint
- New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Series
- Routledge advances in film studies ; 13Routledge advances in film studies ; 13.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 13-3073