Hollywood and the Great Depression : American film, politics and society in the 1930s / edited by Iwan Morgan and Philip John Davies.

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In the popular imagination, 1930s Hollywood was a dream factory producing escapist movies to distract the American people from the greatest economic crisis in their nation's history. But while many films of the period conform to this stereotype, there were a significant number that promoted a messag...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Davies, Philip, 1948- (Editor)
Morgan, Iwan W. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century.
Nineteen thirties.
Depressions > 1929 > United States.
United States > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Depressions.
Manners and customs.
Motion pictures.
United States.
Film.
Politik.
Depression > Wirtschaft.
New Deal.
Gesellschaft.
Wirtschaftskrise.
Los Angeles- Hollywood.
USA.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:vi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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