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The Hollywood social problem film : madness, despair, and politics from the Depression to the fifties / Peter Roffman and Jim Purdy Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.
Call No: 744 ROFAuthor: Roffman, Peter, 1950 ; Purdy, Jim, Place: BloomingtonPublisher: Indiana University PressPubDate: 1981PhysDes: x, 364 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cmSubject: SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS. USA ; DEPRESSION IN FILMS ; DRUGS IN FILMS ; MADNESS IN FILMS ; BAD GUYS ; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA ; FALLEN WOMEN IN FILMS ; DELINQUENTS IN FILMS ; JEWS IN FILMS ; BLACKS IN FILMS. USA ; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; BLACKLISTING. USA ; JOURNALISTS IN FILMS ; POLITICAL PERSONALITIES IN FILMS ; POPULISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; RACIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMS ; RURAL LIFE IN FILMS ; WARNER BROS. ; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; LANG, FRITZ ; BORZAGE, FRANK ; CHAPLIN, CHARLES ; GARFIELD, JOHN ; CAPRA, FRANK ; VIDOR, KING ; BLACK LEGION (US, Archie L. Mayo, 1936) ; CABIN IN THE COTTON, THE (US, Michael Curtiz, 1932) ; DEAD END (US, William Wyler, 1937) ; FORCE OF EVIL (US, Abraham Polonsky, 1948) ; GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (US, Gregory La Cava, 1933) ; STATE'S ATTORNEY (US, George Archainbaud, 1932) ; SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (US, Preston Sturges, 1942) ; THEY WON'T FORGET (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1937) ; THREE COMRADES (US, Frank Borzage, 1938) ; GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT (US, Elia Kazan, 1947) ; I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE F.B.I. (US, Gordon Douglas, 1951) ; LAWLESS, THE (US, Joseph Losey, 1950) ; LAWYER MAN (US, Wilhelm Dieterle, 1932) ; LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? (US, Frank Borzage, 1934) ; MASSACRE (US, Alan Crosland, 1933) ; MEET JOHN DOE (US, Frank Capra, 1941) ; MOUTHPIECE, THE (US, James Flood & Elliott Nugent, 1932) ; OUR DAILY BREAD (US, King Vidor, 1934) ; PINKY (US, Elia Kazan, 1949) ; PRESIDENT VANISHES, THE (US, William Wellman, 1934) ; RIFFRAFF (US, J. Walter Ruben, 1936) ; [MISTER] MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (US, Frank Capra, 1936) ; [MISTER] MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (US, Frank Capra, 1939) ; MODERN TIMES (US, Charles Chaplin, 1936) ; MONSIEUR VERDOUX (US, Charles Chaplin, 1947) ; MORTAL STORM, THE (US, Frank Borzage, 1940) ; MY MAN GODFREY (US, Gregory La Cava, 1936) ; ON THE WATERFRONT (US, Elia Kazan, 1954) ; BODY AND SOUL (US, Robert Rossen, 1947) ; GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940) ; GREAT DICTATOR, THE (US, Charles Chaplin, 1940) ; HEROES FOR SALE (US, William A. Wellman, 1933) ; I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (US, Mervyn LeRoy, 1932) ; IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (US, Frank Capra, 1946) ; SALT OF THE EARTH (US, Herbert J. Biberman, 1954) ; YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (US, Fritz Lang, 1937) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p. 319-329; Filmography: p. 331-351ISBN: 0253127076; 0253202612 (pbk.)LON: 1763505
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The president's ladies : Jane Wyman and Nancy Davis / Dick F. Bernard Jackson [Mississippi]: University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
Call No: 802.27 DICAuthor: Dick, Bernard F. Source: USPlace: Jackson [Mississippi]Publisher: University Press of MississippiPubDate: 2014PhysDes: viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: WYMAN, JANE ; DAVIS, NANCY ; REAGAN RONALD ; ACTORS ; POLITICAL PERSONALITIES IN FILMS Summary: "Ronald Reagan, a former actor and one of America's most popular presidents, married not one but two Hollywood actresses. This book is three biographies in one, discovering fascinating connections among Jane Wyman (1917-2007), Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), and Nancy Davis (b. 1921). Jane Wyman, who married Reagan in 1940 and divorced him seven years later, knew an early life of privation. She gravitated to the movies and made her debut at fifteen as an unbilled member of the chorus, then toiled as an extra for four years until she finally received billing. She proved herself as a dramatic actress in The Lost Weekend, and the following year, she was nominated for an Oscar for The Yearling and soon won for her performance in Johnny Belinda, in which she did not speak a single line. Other Oscar nominations followed, along with a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Angela Channing in Falcon Crest.Conversely, Nancy Davis led a relatively charmed life, the daughter of an actress and the stepdaughter of a neurosurgeon. Surrounded by her mother's friends--Walter Huston, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lillian Gish, and Alla Nazimova, her godmother--Davis started in the theater, then moved on to Hollywood, where she enjoyed modest success, and finally began working in television. When she married Reagan in 1952, she unwittingly married into politics, eventually leaving acting to concentrate on being the wife of the governor of California, and then the wife of the president of the United States. In her way, Davis played her greatest role as Reagan's friend, confidante, and adviser in life and in politics. This book considers three actors who left an indelible mark on both popular and political culture for more than fifty years." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 9781617039805Donation: donated by Senses of Cinema, 2014Contents: 1.The Abandoned Child -- 2.The Name below the Title -- 3.Jane and Ronnie -- 4.Slouching toward Stardom -- 5.Reaganless for the Duration---and Beyond -- 6.Angel in the Wings -- 7.Highs and Lows -- 8.Going for the Gold -- 9.Frontier Gal -- 10.Strange Interlude -- 11.And the Winner Is -- 12.The Non-Marrying Kind -- 13.These Three -- 14.The Rest---and Best---of Reagan -- 15.Stars in Her Eyes -- 16.Twinkie, Twinkle, Little Starlet -- 17.Nancy at Tiffany's -- 18.The Empress of Ice Cream -- 19.Post-Oscar Blues -- 20.The Last Picture Shows -- 21.A Cathedral and a Conversion -- 22.Zinging with Bing -- 23.Glass Animals and Blue Veils, Cabbages and Couture -- 24.Addio del passato -- 25.I Do, I Don't, I Do, I Don't -- 26.The Actress and the Octopus -- 27.The Actress and the Auteur -- 28.The Beginning of the End -- 29.Worlds Elsewhere -- 30.From the Hearth to the Vineyards -- 31.Unholy Families
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Reel politics : American political movies from Birth of a nation to Platoon / Terry Christensen Oxford New York: Blackwell, 1987.
Call No: 745 CHRAuthor: Christensen, Terry Place: Oxford New YorkPublisher: BlackwellPubDate: 1987PhysDes: x, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: POLITICAL FILMS. USA ; WORLD WAR II FILMS ; FASCISM AND THE CINEMA ; COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA ; VIETNAM WAR FILMS ; WORKERS IN FILMS ; NUCLEAR ISSUES IN FILMS ; REVOLUTIONARY THEMES IN FILMS ; WAR AND THE CINEMA ; POLITICAL PERSONALITIES IN FILMS ; FONDA, HENRY ; FORD, JOHN ; GRIFFITH, DAVID WARK ; REDS (US, Warren Beatty, 1981) ; BIRTH OF A NATION, THE (US, David Wark Griffith, 1915) ; GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE (US, Gregory La Cava, 1933) ; [MISTER] MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (US, Frank Capra, 1939) ; GRAPES OF WRATH, THE (US, John Ford, 1940) ; CITIZEN KANE (US, Orson Welles, 1941) ; CASABLANCA (US, Michael Curtiz, 1942) ; CANDIDATE, THE (US, Michael Ritchie, 1972) ; FRONT, THE (US, Martin Ritt, 1976) ; ADVISE AND CONSENT (US, Otto Preminger, 1962) ; STATE OF THE UNION (US, Frank Capra, 1948) ; SISTERS (US, Brian De Palma, 1972) Notes: Includes index; Bibliography: p.[224]-227ISBN: 0631158448 : $24.95 (U.S.)LON: 5549737
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