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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6555872 Title: The Hollywood social problem film : madness, despair, and politics from the Depression to the fifties Author: Peter Roffman; Jim Purdy Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1981. ISBN/ISSN: 0253127076 9780253127075 0253202612 9780253202611 OCLC:6555872

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The Hollywood social problem film : madness, despair, and politics from the Depression to the fifties

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The Hollywood social problem film : madness, despair, and politics from the Depression to the fifties

Author:	Peter Roffman; Jim Purdy
Publisher:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1981.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form:	Scénarios
Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Roffman, Peter, 1950- Hollywood social problem film. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1981 (OCoLC)557645022 Online version: Roffman, Peter, 1950- Hollywood social problem film. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1981 (OCoLC)631807288
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Peter Roffman; Jim Purdy Find more information about:
ISBN:	0253127076 9780253127075 0253202612 9780253202611
OCLC Number:	6555872
Description:	x, 364 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:	The system breaks down : the individual as victim, 1930-1933 -- Protypes : gangsters, fallen women, and convicts -- The shysters -- The populists - or who's afraid of the big bad wolf? -- Desperation - Hollywood turns to the right -- From despair to recovery : Warner Brothers and FDR -- The system upheld : the individual redeemed, 1933-1941 -- Unemployment - doing your part -- Hollywood and the worker -- Rural problems -- The juvenile delinquent and society -- The ex-con and society -- Different problems, same solutions -- Native fascists - lynching and legions -- Frank Capra's super-shyster and little people -- More plutocrats and would-be dictators -- International fascism - from pacifism to war -- The postwar world -- Readjustment - "nervous from the service" -- The minorities -- More neurosis - alcoholism and insanity -- Postwar labor problems -- The individual and society : darker views of the postwar world -- HUAC and the end of an era -- Conclusion : Sullivan's travels - Hollywood goes slumming.
Responsibility:	Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy.

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