Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal: Public Daydreams
Author:   Anna Siomopoulos (Bentley University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138689503


Pages:   156
Publication Date:   10 May 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Hollywood Melodrama and the New Deal: Public Daydreams


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Author:   Anna Siomopoulos (Bentley University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138689503


ISBN 10:   1138689505
Pages:   156
Publication Date:   10 May 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Selected Contents: Introduction: ""Public Daydreams"" and the New Deal 1. Scarface Over the White House: The New Deal and the Political Gangster Film 2. ""With Every Step and Every Breath I Took"": Mass Culture, Embodied Citizenship and the Mob Violence Film of the 1930s 3. ""I Didn't Know Anyone Could Be So Unselfish"": The Welfare State, Consumer Citizenship and King Vidor’s Stella Dallas 4. ""I Know I Done Wrong: I’ve Done Repent"": Black Nationalism, the New Deal and The Emperor Jones 5. The Doubleness of ""Indemnity"": The Welfare State and 1940s Insurance Noir Conclusion: Towards a Political Theory of Melodrama"

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

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