A New Kind of Public: Community, Solidarity, and Political Economy in New Deal Cinema, 1935-1948

This engaging and original work argues that modern Hollywood was forged in the fires of class struggle and economic inequality

Graham Cassano is Associate Professor of Sociology at Oakland University, in Rochester, Michigan. He has published articles on a range of topics, including Thorstein Veblen’s social theories, the sociology of American labor, and postmodern Marxian theory. He edited the volume, Class Struggle on the Homefront (Palgrave, 2010) and co-edited the volume, with Richard A. Dello Buono, Crisis, Politics, and Critical Sociology (Haymarket Book, 2010)