The look of Catholics : portrayals in popular culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War /
Smith, Anthony Burke.
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Priests, gangsters, and cowboys : Catholic outsiders, American insiders, and the contest over national community -- The Catholic front : religion, reform, and culture in Depression-era America -- A new deal in movie religion : the public sphere of Catholic films -- Cool Catholics in the hot American melting pot : Going my way, Bing Crosby, and Hollywood's new faith in consensus -- Pro-Life Catholics : the representation of Catholicism in Life magazine, 1936-1960 -- Performing Catholicism in an age of consensus : Fulton J. Sheen, television, and postwar America -- From public dilemmas to private virtues : Leo McCarey, Hollywood comedy, and the household of Americanization -- John Ford's Irish American century : ethnicity, Catholicism, and the borderlands of national identity -- Epilogue: Catholics and the American community at the turn of a new century.
Catholics
Popular culture
Mass media
Catholics in motion pictures
Nationalism
Community life
Cultural pluralism