Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America

Working-Class Hollywood: How the Political Economy Shaped American Film Discover the untold story of how Hollywood became "Hollywood" and what it meant for the politics of America and American film.

This groundbreaking book reveals the rise of a working-class film movement that challenged the dominant political ideas of the day, and how they shaped the meaning of class in twentieth-century America. With a comprehensive survey of over 300 movies made by or about working men and women, Working-Class Hollywood provides an in-depth look at how filmmakers defended working people and chastised their enemies through cinematic masterpieces like A Martyr to His Cause (1911) and The Gastonia Textile Strike (1929). But be warned: J.

Edgar Hoover considered these class-conscious productions so dangerous that he assigned secret agents to spy on worker filmmakers.

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