Blue-collar Hollywood
Subtitle: liberalism, democracy, and working people in American film
By: John Bodnar.
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Working class in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- United States -- History
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-275) and index.