The look of Catholics
Subtitle: portrayals in popular culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War
By: Anthony Burke Smith.
Series: CultureAmerica
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780700617166
Subjects: Catholics -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Catholics in motion pictures -- History -- 20th century; Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Community life -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Cultural pluralism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945; United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-; United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Priests, gangsters, and cowboys : Catholic outsiders, American insiders, and the struggle over national community; title: The Catholic front : religion, reform, and culture in Depression-era America; title: A new deal in movie religion : the public sphere of Catholic films; title: Cool Catholics in the hot American melting pot : Going my way, Bing Crosby, and Hollywood's new faith in consensus; title: Pro-life Catholics : the representation of Catholicism in Life magazine, 1936-1960; title: Performing Catholicism in an age of consensus : Fulton J. Sheen, television, and postwar America; title: From public dilemmas to private virtues : Leo McCarey, Hollywood comedy, and the household of Americanization; title: John Ford's Irish American century : ethnicity, Catholicism, and the borderlands of national identity; title: Epilogue: Catholics and the American community at the turn of a new century.