1st Edition

Film and Politics in America A Social Tradition

By Brian Neve Copyright 1992
300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

In A Social Cinema: Film-making and Politics in America , Brian Neve presents a study of the social and political nature of American film by concentrating on a generation of writers from the thirties who directed films in Hollywood in the 1940's. He discusses how they negotiated their roles in relation to the studio system, itself undergoing change, and to what extent their experience in the... Read more
Preface 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

Biography

Brian Neve