Hollywood's New Deal

Weaving together film and political history, this work traces the connections between Depression Era Hollywood and the popularity of F D Roosevelt, asserting that politics transformed its public into spectators while the movie industry transformed its spectators into a public.

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The New Deal and the Media 2. Hollywood and Washington 3. Cinema and the New Deal 4. The Film Industry in the Thirties 5. The ParamountCase Conclusion Notes Index