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Hollywood and the Great Depression
Examines how Hollywood responded to and reflected the political and social changes that America experienced during the 1930s.In the popular imagination, 1930s Hollywood was a dream factory producing escapist movies to distract the American people from the greatest economic crisis in their nation's history. But while many films of the period conform to this stereotype, there were a significant number that promoted a message, either explicitly or implicitly, in support of the political, social and economic change broadly associated with President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programme. At the same time, Hollywood was in the forefront of challenging traditional gender roles, both in terms of movie representations of women and the role of women within the studio system. With case studies of actors like Shirley Temple, Cary Grant and Fred Astaire, as well as a selection of films that reflect politics and society in the Depression decade, this fascinating book examines how the challenges of the Great Depression impacted on Hollywood and how it responded to them.Topics covered include:How Hollywood offered positive representations of working womenCongressional investigations of big-studio monopolization over movie distributionHow three different types of musical genres related in different ways to the Great Depression – the Warner Bros Great Depression Musicals of 1933, the Astaire/Rogers movies, and the MGM 'kids' musicals of the late 1930sThe problems of independent production exemplified in King Vidor's Our Daily BreadCary Grant's success in developing a debonair screen persona amid Depression conditionsContributors Harvey G. Cohen, King's College LondonPhilip John Davies, British LibraryDavid Eldridge, University of HullPeter William Evans, Queen Mary, University of LondonMark Glancy, Queen Mary University of LondonIna Rae Hark, University of South CarolinaIwan Morgan, University College LondonBrian Neve, University of BathIan Scott, University of ManchesterAnna Siomopoulos, Bentley UniversityJ. E. Smyth, University of WarwickMelvyn Stokes, University College LondonMark Wheeler, London Metropolitan University
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Seeking a New Majority
The rise of the Republican Party from its mid-twentieth-century
minority status between 1960 and 1980 had a profound impact on
American politics that is still being felt in the second decade of
the twenty-first century. The GOP would move to the right in its
pursuit of electoral ascendancy, but considerable debate within the
party surrounded this shift and its success was far from certain.
Ultimately, however, this development would culminate in the
transformational election of Ronald Reagan as president in 1980.
Seeking a New Majority assembles an international group of
scholars to move beyond the ideas and activities of party leaders
who have hitherto received the bulk of historical attention. It
illuminates how the Republican Party expanded its regional base,
especially in the South, appealed to new constituencies ranging
from blue-collar workers to Christian fundamentalists, and enhanced
the political appeal of conservatism. It also examines how
Republicans engaged in a remarkable organizational and intellectual
mobilization to challenge Democratic Party dominance--in search of
a new majority.
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Nixon Biographies
This chapter contains sections titled:
Nixon Ascendant Biographies
Psychobiography
Nixon Memoirs
Redemption and Damnation: Post‐Watergate Biographies
Scholarly Biographies
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