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Reviews
Blue-Collar Hollywood Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film
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By John Bodnar
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(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Pp. xxxiv, 284. Illustrations, notes, sources, index. $42.95.)
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| For nearly a century, working people —ordinary men and women—have been frequent subjects in one of the most powerful forms of mass culture: the American film. In Blue-Collar Hollywood, historian John Bodnar presents an important investigation and critique of characterizations of working people in "the movies," and of the way in which film-making interacts with American political and social traditions. |
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