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The big tomorrow : Hollywood and the politics of the American way
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"In a revealing book that shows the startling connections between national politics and Hollywood movies, Lary May offers a bold, fresh interpretation of American culture from the New Deal through ...
"In a revealing book that shows the startling connections between national politics and Hollywood movies, Lary May offers a bold, fresh interpretation of American culture from the New Deal through the Cold War."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Lary May
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- English
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2000]
- ©2000
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- xv, 348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226511627, 0226511626
- OCLC
- ocm42810828
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-339) and indexes.
- Prologue: Nothing Is More American -- 1. "My Ancestors Did Not Come Over on the Mayflower": Will Rogers and the Radicalism of Tradition -- 2. The Recreation of America: Hybrid Moviemakers and the Multicultural Republic -- 3. Utopia on Main Street: Modern Theaters and the "New" Audiences -- 4. The Birth of the White Consumer Democracy: Hollywood and the World War II Conversion Narrative -- 5. Movie Star Politics: Hollywood and the Making of Cold War Americanism -- 6. "Outside the Groove of History": Film Noir and the Birth of a Counterculture -- Epilogue: Reimagining Postwar America