Hollywood melodrama and the New Deal
Subtitle: public daydreams
By: Anna Siomopoulos
Series: Routledge advances in film studies -- 13
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780415882934
Subjects: Melodrama in motion pictures; Motion pictures; New Deal, 1933-1939, in motion pictures
Description: xii, 154 p. : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "public daydreams" and the New Deal; title: Scarface over the White House: the New Deal and the political gangster film; title: "With every step and every breath I took": mass culture, embodied citizenship and the mob violence film of the 1930s; title: "I didn't know anyone could be so unselfish": the welfare state, consumer citizenship and King Vidor's Stella Dallas; title: "I know I done wrong: I've done repent": black nationalism, the New Deal and The Emperor Jones; title: The doubleness of "Indemnity": the welfare state and 1940s insurance noir; title: Conclusion: towards a political theory of melodrama.