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In this fresh look at moviemaking during the Great Depression, David Welky examines Hollywood's response to the rise of fascism and the beginning of the Second World War. Through innovative analysis of hundreds of movies--including The Dawn Patrol, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and Sergeant York--Welky traces the shifting motivations and arguments of the film industry, politicians, and the public as they negotiated how--or whether--the silver screen should portray Nazism, depict conflict overseas, promote Americanism, and support President Roosevelt's rearmament efforts. Hollywood, Welky argues, was a primary player in the debate between interventionists and isolationists. These competing groups vied for influence and control over the message Hollywood offered the public--either scorning it for being too timid or attacking it for being too aggressive. The national debate reached a fever pitch in September 1941, when isolationists in the U.S. Senate staged widely publicized hearings, accusing the movie industry of warmongering. While prewar Hollywood often reflected the principles of the Roosevelt administration, it also sometimes outpaced the cautious and politically astute president. Providing Americans with the psychological preparation they needed to enter World War II, popular movies familiarized audiences with the wartime experience, offered definitions of patriotism and Americanism, and established the fundamental distinctions between democracy and dictatorship. Welky's depth of research and focused, analytical approach will be appreciated by historians as well as film buffs.… (meer)
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"If right thy words I scan," replied that shade magnanimous, "thy soul is by vile fear assail'd, which oft So overcasts a man, that he recoils From noblest resolution, like a beast At some false semblance in the twilight gloom." ---Dante, Inferno, Canto II
Hollywood may be full of phonies, mediocrities, dictators and good men who have lost their way, but there is something that draws you there that you should not be ashamed of. ---Budd Shulberg, What Makes Sammy Run?
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To MLB and RWB, for teaching me who Tyrone Power is, and to JRW, because one day I'll teach him.
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In December 1933, fifteen years after the guns of the Great War fell silent, screenwriter Samuel Ornitz sent MGM producer David O. Selznick a treatment for a movie entitled "The Second World War."
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As it turns out, those old movies are not relics so much as portents, cinematic arrows pointing toward modern Americans' eagerness to seek enlightenment from their entertainment.
In this fresh look at moviemaking during the Great Depression, David Welky examines Hollywood's response to the rise of fascism and the beginning of the Second World War. Through innovative analysis of hundreds of movies--including The Dawn Patrol, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, and Sergeant York--Welky traces the shifting motivations and arguments of the film industry, politicians, and the public as they negotiated how--or whether--the silver screen should portray Nazism, depict conflict overseas, promote Americanism, and support President Roosevelt's rearmament efforts. Hollywood, Welky argues, was a primary player in the debate between interventionists and isolationists. These competing groups vied for influence and control over the message Hollywood offered the public--either scorning it for being too timid or attacking it for being too aggressive. The national debate reached a fever pitch in September 1941, when isolationists in the U.S. Senate staged widely publicized hearings, accusing the movie industry of warmongering. While prewar Hollywood often reflected the principles of the Roosevelt administration, it also sometimes outpaced the cautious and politically astute president. Providing Americans with the psychological preparation they needed to enter World War II, popular movies familiarized audiences with the wartime experience, offered definitions of patriotism and Americanism, and established the fundamental distinctions between democracy and dictatorship. Welky's depth of research and focused, analytical approach will be appreciated by historians as well as film buffs.