![]() ![]() And it rarely shied away from depicting social unrest in a way that seems almost unthinkable in today's mainstream cinema. Sometimes, it even had a campaigning one. It was also a time of radical politics, economic collapse and societal rejuvenation, and, perhaps more than at any other time, America had a responsive cinema, in dialogue with its national identity. A period of upheaval and revelation, of strictures, compromises, and hedonistic last hurrahs, and of brilliant new voices. The 1930s was an incomparably fascinating and fertile time in movie-making. Part 1 features morphine addiction, a communist binman and a man being shot in the dick. Before that, my knowledge of the 32nd POTUS had largely been filtered through the prism of cinema, so I thought it'd be fun to write about how FDR and his times were shown on screen as events happened. This new two-part blog was inspired by reading Jean Edward Smith's excellent FDR biography. ![]() – 'Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?' by Yip Harburg, 1930 "They used to tell me I was building a dream ![]()
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