Iwan Morgan is Professor of US Studies and Commonwealth Fund Professor of American History at University College London. He is a former chair of the Historians of the Twentieth Century United States, co-founder of the Presidential History Network, British Association of American Studies Honorary Fellow and Honorary Fellow of the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.
Philip John Davies, Director of the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library, is the former President of the European Association for American Studies, and has also served as Chair of the American Politics Group of the UK, Chair of the UK Council of Area Studies Associations and Chair of the British Association for American Studies.
The articles in this collection serve to bring new information to
light, challenge some ideas about Depression-era film and deepen
readers' understanding of other aspects of the film industry in the
1930s.--Richard Bodek, College of Charleston "Historical Journal of
Film, Radio and Television"
This stimulating collection energetically revisits and frequently
revises the history of Hollywood's political engagements during the
height of its cultural influence in the 1930s, offering new
insights into the responses of writers, stars, moguls and
distributors to the Depression and New Deal, and their expression
in some of the decade's most memorable movies.'--Professor Richard
Maltby, Flinders University
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