Reelpolitik Political Ideologies in '30s and '40s Films

Name: Reelpolitik Political Ideologies in '30s and '40s Films
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ISBN: 9780275960193

ISBN-10: 0275960196

ISBN-13: 9780275960193

Edition: 1998

Authors: Beverly Merrill Kelley

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The movies that document American history during the interwar years still hold relevance today. While we may be put off by the corny sentimentality popular at the time, we feel attracted, despite our 1990s veneer of sophistication, to healthy portions of unadulterated American spirit. Americans resist encumbering themselves with political labels, Kelley asserts, content to remain simultaneously fragmented between elitism and populism, isolationism and interventionism even today, yet remain somehow united by a fundamental essence they can't quite define, but readily recognize as the American can-do attitude. Using the unique vantage point of eight classic American movies--Mr. Smith Goes to…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 11/24/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Series Foreword



Foreword




Introduction: Purpose, Methodology and Background




Populism in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington




Elitism in The Magnificent Ambersons




Fascism in Gabriel over the White House




Antifascism in Citizen Kane




Internationalism in Casablanca




Isolationism in All Quiet on the Western Front




Communism in Our Daily Bread




Anticommunism in The Fountainhead




Conclusion



Selected Bibliography


Index


About the Author and Contributors