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Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film
John Bodnar
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Description for Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film
Hardback. Instead, these movies were infused with the same current of liberalism and popular notion of democracy that flow through the American imagination. Num Pages: 328 pages, 13, 13 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; APF; HBJK; HBLW; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
From Tom Joad to Norma Rae to Spike Lee's Mookie in Do the Right Thing, Hollywood has regularly dramatized the lives and struggles of working people in America. Ranging from idealistic to hopeless, from sympathetic to condescending, these portrayals confronted audiences with the vital economic, social, and political issues of their times while providing a diversion-sometimes entertaining, sometimes provocative-from the realities of their own lives. 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 ... Read more
From Tom Joad to Norma Rae to Spike Lee's Mookie in Do the Right Thing, Hollywood has regularly dramatized the lives and struggles of working people in America. Ranging from idealistic to hopeless, from sympathetic to condescending, these portrayals confronted audiences with the vital economic, social, and political issues of their times while providing a diversion-sometimes entertaining, sometimes provocative-from the realities of their own lives. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801871498
SKU
V9780801871498
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About John Bodnar
John Bodnar is Chancellor's Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington, and author of numerous books, including Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century.
Reviews for Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film
You cannot but be seduced and even sometimes bedazzled by Bodnar's clear, well-informed and impartial analysis.
Nicolas Magenham Cercles An uncommonly well balanced account of the political biases of American movies... A fine read for the generalist yet a scholarly achievement. Choice 2003 Bodnar provides a useful provocation. He asks us to think imaginatively about the subtle and complex ... Read more
Nicolas Magenham Cercles An uncommonly well balanced account of the political biases of American movies... A fine read for the generalist yet a scholarly achievement. Choice 2003 Bodnar provides a useful provocation. He asks us to think imaginatively about the subtle and complex ... Read more