Nick Smedley: 2 books
The Roots of Modern Hollywood
The Persistence of Values in American Cinema, from the New Deal to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
In this insightful study of Hollywood cinema since 1969, film historian Nick Smedley traces the cultural and intellectual heritage of American films, showing how the more thoughtful recent cinema owes a profound debt to Hollywood’s traditions of liberalism, first articulated in the New Deal era....
A Divided World
Hollywood Cinema and Emigre Directors in the Era of Roosevelt and Hitler, 1933-1948
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Roosevelt’s New Deal introduced sweeping social, political and cultural change across the United States, which the Hollywood film community embraced enthusiastically. When the heady idealism of the 1930s was replaced by the paranoia and fear of the post-war years, Hollywood became an easy target...