Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal
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Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal

Public Daydreams

  1. 154 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal

Public Daydreams

About this book

While many critics have analyzed the influence of the FDR administration on Hollywood films of the era, most of these studies have focused either on New Deal imagery or on studio interactions with the federal government. Neither type of study explores the relationship between film and the ideological principles underlying the New Deal.

This book argues that the most important connections between the New Deal and Hollywood melodrama lie neither in the New Deal iconography of these films, nor in the politics of any one studio executive. Rather, the New Deal figures prominently in Hollywood melodramas of the Depression era because these films engage the political ideas underlying welfare state policies—ideas that extended the reach of government into the private realm. As the author shows, Hollywood melodramas interrogated New Deal principles of liberal empathy—consumer citizenship, the refeudalization of the state, and minimal economic redistribution—only to support welfare-state ideology in the end.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9781136463976
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
North American History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: “Public Daydreams” and the New Deal
  9. 1. Scarface over the White House: The New Deal and the Political Gangster Film
  10. 2. “With Every Step and Every Breath I Took”: Mass Culture, Embodied Citizenship, and the Mob Violence Film of the 1930s
  11. 3. “I Didn’t Know Anyone Could be so Unselfish”: The Welfare State, Consumer Citizenship, and King Vidor’s Stella Dallas1
  12. 4. “I Know I Done Wrong; I’ve Done Repent”: The New Deal, Black Nationalism, and The Emperor Jones1
  13. 5. The Doubleness of “Indemnity”: The Welfare State and 1940s Insurance Noir
  14. Conclusion: Towards a Political Theory of Melodrama
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index