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Title: Working-Class Hollywood by Steven J. Ross ISBN: 0-691-02464-2 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 14 December, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Little Known Labour History
Comment: Steven J. Ross shines a light on a little known and rarely examined period of cinema and labour history. In Working-Class Hollywood (Silent Film and the Shaping of class in America), he looks at the movies created by, for or against the labour movement and its emerging class identity. It is so interesting as it is a time of growth and struggle for both the cinema and the labour movements and the author shows how these two forces bumped and grinded with each other in a way movies never would again. Movies helped create a certain image of class and by the thirties this was pretty much set in stone so it is the period of the silent film where the struggle to shape that identity ensued. This book is amazingly well researched and accessible for the reader of either cinema, labour, or American history. Sometimes the author stretches his point and the reader will be frustrated that many of the films discussed are unavailable for viewing but these are small caveats to an impressive work.
Rating: 4
Summary: Walking the picket line in silent films
Comment: Anyone interested in films dealing with social issues will love this book. In the 1910's the movie studios made many films that dealt with the relationship between management and workers. In the 1920's, a combination of lack of funds, censors and powerful movie studios combined to restrict stories of class conflict from the screen. This book explores one-reel melodramas by D.W. Griffith, comedies by Charlie Chaplin that ridicule people in authority, the "Red Scare" films from after World War I, and the films produced by labor activists themselves. It shows how many films used stereotypes of violent strikers that were not realistic. By necessity, this book is sympathetic to labor unions, but that does not interfere with the author's analysis of his subject.
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Title: Voices of Protest : Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression by Alan Brinkley ISBN: 0394716280 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 August, 1983 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Backlash : The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi ISBN: 0385425074 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 06 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era by Elaine Tyler May ISBN: 0465030556 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture (Cultural Studies of the United States) by Robert C. Allen, Alan Trachtenberg ISBN: 0807843164 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: May, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950 : Moguls, Mobsters, by Gerald Horne ISBN: 0292731388 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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