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- Condition
- ISBN-13
- 9780801885372
- Book Title
- Blue-Collar Hollywood
- ISBN
- 9780801885372
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Blue-Collar Hollywood : Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 16.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 328 Pages
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From Tom Joad to Norma Rae to Spike Lee's Mookie in Do the Right Thing , Hollywood has regularly dramatized the lives and struggles of working people in America. Ranging from idealistic to hopeless, from sympathetic to condescending, these portrayals confronted audiences with the vital economic, social, and political issues of their times while providing a diversion--sometimes entertaining, sometimes provocative--from the realities of their own lives. In Blue-Collar Hollywood , John Bodnar examines the ways in which popular American films made between the 1930s and the 1980s depicted working-class characters, comparing these cinematic representations with the aspirations of ordinary Americans and the promises made to them by the country's political elites. Based on close and imaginative viewings of dozens of films from every genre--among them Public Enemy , Black Fury , Baby Face , The Grapes of Wrath , It's a Wonderful Life , I Married a Communist , A Streetcar Named Desire , Peyton Place , Taxi Driver , Raging Bull , Coal Miner's Daughter , and Boyz N the Hood --this book explores such topics as the role of censorship, attitudes toward labor unions and worker militancy, racism, the place of women in the workforce and society, communism and the Hollywood blacklist, and faith in liberal democracy. Whether made during the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, or the Vietnam era, the majority of films about ordinary working Americans, Bodnar finds, avoided endorsing specific political programs, radical economic reform, or overtly reactionary positions. Instead, these movies were infused with the same current of liberalism and popular notion of democracy that flow through the American imagination.
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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
080188537x
ISBN-13
9780801885372
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19038529713
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Blue-Collar Hollywood : Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn1995.9.L28b63 2006
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"Open minded and even handed, he appreciates the nuances and mixed messages of Hollywood cinema." -- American Historical Review, "Bodnar provides a useful provocation. He asks us to think imaginatively about the subtle and complex ways movies communicate ideas and attitudes." -- Robert Brent Toplin, Journal of American History, "You cannot but be seduced and even sometimes bedazzled by Bodnar's clear, well-informed and impartial analysis." -- Nicolas Magenham, Cercles, "An uncommonly well balanced account of the political biases of American movies... A fine read for the generalist yet a scholarly achievement." -- Choice, You cannot but be seduced and even sometimes bedazzled by Bodnar's clear, well-informed and impartial analysis., Bodnar provides a useful provocation. He asks us to think imaginatively about the subtle and complex ways movies communicate ideas and attitudes., "An uncommonly well balanced account of the political bases of American movies... A fine read for the generalist yet a scholarly achievement." -- Choice, "A worthwhile acquisition for an academic library." -- Tomá Pospíil, Amerikastudien / American Studies, An uncommonly well balanced account of the political biases of American movies... A fine read for the generalist yet a scholarly achievement.
Copyright Date
2003
Topic
Film / General, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Film / Référence, Film / History & Criticism
Lccn
2002-006481
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Performing Arts
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