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The look of Catholics : portrayals in popular culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War
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The look of Catholics : portrayals in popular culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War / Anthony Burke Smith.
ISBN
9780700617166 (cloth : alk. paper)
0700617167 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2010.
Physical Description
xi, 284 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 19, 2010
Series
CultureAmerica
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Priests, gangsters, and cowboys : Catholic outsiders, American insiders, and the contest over national community
The Catholic front : religion, reform, and culture in Depression-era America
A new deal in movie religion : the public sphere of Catholic films
Cool Catholics in the hot American melting pot : Going my way, Bing Crosby, and Hollywood's new faith in consensus
Pro-Life Catholics : the representation of Catholicism in Life magazine, 1936-1960
Performing Catholicism in an age of consensus : Fulton J. Sheen, television, and postwar America
From public dilemmas to private virtues : Leo McCarey, Hollywood comedy, and the household of Americanization
John Ford's Irish American century : ethnicity, Catholicism, and the borderlands of national identity
Epilogue: Catholics and the American community at the turn of a new century.
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