Praeger Publishers 1998-11-30 Hardcover Very Good Very good plus to LIKE NEW hardcover, book is clean and tight.

ISBN10: 0275960188, ISBN13: 9780275960186, [publisher: Praeger Publishers] Hardcover Very good plus to LIKE NEW hardcover, book is clean and tight.
[Desert Hot Springs, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1998]

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Praeger, Date: 1998. 1st. Paperback. New. 1998. Praeger ISBN 0275960188 9780275960186 [IN]

Greenwood, Date: 1998. 1st. Paperback. UsedLikeNew/UsedLikeNew. 1998. Greenwood ISBN 0275960188 9780275960186 [IN]

ISBN10: 0275960188, ISBN13: 9780275960186, [publisher: Bloomsbury 3PL] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The movies that document American history during the interwar years still hold relevance today. While we may be put off by the corny sentimentality popular at the time, we feel attracted, despite our 1990s veneer of sophistication, to healthy portions of unadulterated American spirit. Americans resist encumbering themselves with political labels, Kelley asserts, content to remain simultaneously fragmented between elitism and populism, isolationism and interventionism even today, yet remain somehow united by a fundamental essence they can't quite define but readily recognize as the American can-do attitude.Using the unique vantage point of eight classic American movies-Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Magnificent Ambersons, Gabriel Over the White House, Citizen Kane, Casablanca All Quiet on the Western Front, Daily Bread, and The Fountainhead-Kelley and her colleagues explore the political ideologies thrumming through the American psyche. The stock market crash and ensuing depression proved a defining experience. For the first time, the national psyche was sent careening toward alien political ideologies; the seductiveness of communism and fascism took hold in the wreckage wrought by the Depression. American foreign policy likewise fluctuated from the isolationist stance adopted after fighting the war to end all wars to an ...