Haymarket Books, 2016. Paperback. New softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (5 x 1 x 8 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes references, films cited and an index. 215 pp.


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ISBN: 9781608464937

In 1936, director John Ford claimed to be making movies for a new kind of public.htat wanted more honest pictures. In this insightful and stimulating book Cassano argues that this new kind of public was forged in the fires of class struggle and economic calamity. Those struggles appeared in Hollywood productions, as the movies themselves tried to explain the causes and consequence of the Great Depression. Using the tools of critical Marxism and cultural theory, Cassano surveys Hollywoods political economic explanations and finds a field of symbolic struggle in which radical visions of solidarity and conflict competed with the dominant class ideology for the loyalty. of this new audience.

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