John Bodnar is Chancellor's Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington, and author of numerous books, including Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century.

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"Bodnar provides a useful provocation. He asks us to think imaginatively about the subtle and complex ways movies communicate ideas and attitudes." -- Journal of American History

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Instead, these movies were infused with the same current of liberalism and popular notion of democracy that flow through the American imagination.

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Contents:List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Mass Culture and American Political Traditions ONE: Political Cross-dressing in the Thirties TWO: The People's War THREE: War and Peace at HomeFOUR: Beyond Containment in the Fifties FIVE: The People in TurmoilLiberalism at the Movies: A ConclusionNotes Sources Index Films Mentioned in Blue-Collar HollywoodAdventure (1945) Air Force (1943) Alamo Bay (1985) Alice Adams (1935) Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1975) All My Sons (1948) All the Right Moves (1983) America, America (1963) American Madness (1932) An American Romance (1944) Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) Anna Lucasta (1949) Baby Face (1933) Bataan (1943) Battle Cry (1955) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Black Fury (1935) Black Legion (1937) The Blackboard Jungle (1955) Blue Collar (1978) The Blue Dahlia (1946) Body and Soul (1947) Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Born on the Fourth of July (1989) The Boston Strangler (1968) Boyz N the Hood (1991) Breaking Away (1997) Cabin in the Cotton (1932) Casablanca (1942) The Catered Affair (1956) The Champ (1931) Champion (1949) City Across the River (1949) City for Conquest (1940) Clash By Night (1952) Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) Coming Home (1987) Cool Hand Luke (1967) Crooklyn (1994) Crossfire (1947) Cry of the City (1948) Dead End (1937) Dead Reckoning (1947) Death of a Salesman (1951) Death Wish (1974) The Deer Hunter (1978) Desperate (1947) Dirty Harry (1971) Do the Right Thing (1988) Double Indemnity (1944) Dr. Strangelove (1963) Duck Soup (1933) Duffy's Tavern (1954) Edge of the City (1957) F.I.S.T. (1978) A Face in the Crowd (1957) Fallen Angel (1945) Falling Down (1993) The Farmer's Daughter (1947) The Fighting Sullivans (1944) Five Easy Pieces (1970) Force of Evil (1948) From Here to Eternity (1953) From This Day Forward (1946) Fury (1936) Gabriel Over the White House (1933) The Garment Jungle (1957) Gentlemen's Agreement (1947) The Godfather (1972) The Godfather Part II (1974) Going My Way (1944) Gold Diggers (1933) Golden Boy (1993) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Guadalcanal Diary (1943) Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991) Happy Land (1943) The Harder They Fall (1965) Heroes for Sale (1933) Home of the Brave (1949) Hoosier Schoolboy (1937) How Green Was My Valley (1941) Human Desire (1954) I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) I Married a Communist (1950) I Remember Mama (1948) I'm No Angel (1938) In the Heat of the Night (1967) Inside Detroit (1955) It Happened One Night (1934) It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Jailhouse Rock (1957) The Jazz Singer (1927) Joe (1970) Joe Smith, American (1942) Johnny Dark (1954) The Jolson Story (1946) Judge Priest (1934) Juke Girl (1942) Jungle Fever (1991) Kid Galahad (1937) The Killers (1946) King's Row (1942) Knock on Any Door (1949) Knute Rockne, All American (1940) The Last American Hero (1973) The Last Exit to Brooklyn (1990) The Last Picture Show (1971) Lifeboat (1944) Little Caesar (1931) Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) M*A*S*H (1970) Mannequin (1937) Marked Woman (1937) Marty (1955) Matewan (1987) Mean Streets (1973) Meet John Doe (1941) The Men (1950) Metropolis (1926) Midnight Cowboy (1969) Mildred Pierce (1945) Modern Times (1936) The Molly Maguires (1970) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) The Naked City (1948) Nashville (1975) Native Land (1942) The Negro Soldier (1944) No Down Payment (1957) No Way Out (1950) Norma Rae (1979) On the Waterfront (1954) Our Daily Bread (1934) Our Town (1940) Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945) Paris Blues (1961) The Pawnbroker (1965) Peyton Place (1957) Pin Up Girl (1944) Pinky (1949) Pittsburgh (1942) A Place in the Sun (1951) Places in the Heart (1984) Platoon (1986) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) The Power and the Glory (1933) Pride of the Marines (1945) The Prowler (1951) The Public Enemy (1931) Raging Bull (1980) A Raisin in the Sun (1961) Rambo: First Blood Part Two (1985) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Riff Raff (1963) The River (1984) Rocky (1976) The Rose Tattoo (1955) Rosie the Riveter (1944) Ruggles of R