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Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal: Public Daydreams book cover

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Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal Public Daydreams

By Anna Siomopoulos Copyright 2012
156 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

166 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

166 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction: "Public Daydreams": Fantasies of Redistribution in Hollywood Melodrama of the New Deal  1. Scarface Over the White House: The New Deal and the Public Gangster Film  2. Hollywood Sacer: The Forgotten Man, the Mass-Mediated Sovereign, and the Embodied Citizen  3. "I Didn't Know Anyone Could Be So Unselfish": The Welfare State, Consumer Citizenship and the Maternal Melodrama of the 1930s  4. The Refeudalization of Depression-Era America: The Asian Warlord, the Black Emperor, and Hollywood’s New Deal  5. The Doubleness of Indemnity: 1940s Film Noir and the Paternalist Welfare State  Conclusion: Towards a Political Theory of Melodrama

Biography

Anna Siomopoulos is Associate Professor of English and Media Studies at Bentley University.

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