Book Review : Graham Cassano, A New Kind of Public: Community, Solidarity, and Political Economy in New Deal Cinema, 1935-1948 (Boston: Brill, 2014, $28.00). Pp. 215. ISBN 978 9 0042 7519 5
Graham Cassano’s book contends that a new type of American audience was sought out by Hollywood filmmakers in the 1930s and 1940s. He argues that this reconfigured United States “public” had emerged from the governmental intervention of the New Deal, the inequities of the Great Depression and the ra...
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| Online Access: | https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/4554/1/Graham-Cassano-review.pdf |