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100 1 $aRoss, Steven Joseph.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82207573
245 10 $aWorking-class Hollywood :$bsilent film and the shaping of class in America /$cSteven J. Ross.
260 $aPrinceton, NJ :$bPrinceton University Press,$c1998.
263 $a9801
300 $axviii, 367 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gPt. I.$tThe Rise of the Movies: Political Filmmaking and the Working Class.$g1.$tGoing to the Movies: Leisure, Class, and Danger in the Early Twentieth Century.$g2.$tVisualizing the Working Class: Cinema and Politics before Hollywood.$g3.$tThe Good, the Bad, and the Violent: Class Conflict and the Labor-Capital Genre.$g4.$tMaking a Pleasure of Agitation: The Rise of the Worker Film Movement --$gPt. II.$tThe Rise of Hollywood: From Working Class to Middle Class.$g5.$tWhen Russia Invaded America: Hollywood, War, and the Movies.$g6.$tStruggles for the Screen: The Revival of the Worker Film Movement.$g7.$tFantasy and Politics: Moviegoing and Movies in the 1920s.$g8.$tLights Out: The Decline of Labor Filmmaking and the Triumph of Hollywood.$tEpilogue: The Movies Talk But What Do They Say?
520 $aThis pathbreaking book reveals how Hollywood became "Hollywood" and what that meant for the politics of America and American film. Working-Class Hollywood tells the story of filmmaking in the first three decades of the twentieth century, a time when going to the movies could transform lives and when the cinema was a battleground for control of the American consciousness. Steven Ross documents the rise of a working-class film movement that challenged the dominant political ideas of the day.
520 8 $aBetween 1907 and 1930, worker filmmakers repeatedly clashed with censors, movie industry leaders, and federal agencies over the kinds of images and subjects audiences would be allowed to see. The outcome of these battles was critical to our own times, for the victors got to shape the meaning of class in twentieth-century America.
520 8 $aSurveying several hundred movies made by or about working men and women, Ross shows how filmmakers were far more concerned with class conflict during the silent era than at any subsequent time. Directors like Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, and William de Mille made movies that defended working people and chastised their enemies.
520 8 $aWorker filmmakers went a step further and produced movies from A Martyr to His Cause (1911) to The Gastonia Textile Strike (1929) that depicted a unified working class using strikes, unions, and socialism to transform a nation. J. Edgar Hoover considered these class-conscious productions so dangerous that he assigned secret agents to spy on worker filmmakers.
520 8 $aLiberal and radical films declined in the 1920s as an emerging Hollywood studio system, pressured by censors and Wall Street investors, pushed American film in increasingly conservative directions. Appealing to people's dreams of luxury and upward mobility, studios produced lavish fantasy films that shifted popular attention away from the problems of the workplace and toward the pleasures of the new consumer society.
520 8 $aWhile worker filmmakers were trying to heighten class consciousness, Hollywood producers were suggesting that class no longer mattered. Working-Class Hollywood shows how silent films helped shape the modern belief that we are a classless nation.
650 0 $aWorking class in motion pictures.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073669
650 0 $aSilent films$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111665
650 0 $aMotion pictures$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108037
650 0 $aWorking class$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010119403
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