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Author:

Smith, Anthony Burke.

Title:

The look of Catholics : portrayals in popular culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War / Anthony Burke Smith.

Publisher:

University Press of Kansas,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xi, 284 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Catholics--United States--History--20th century.
Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
Mass media--History--United States--History--20th century.
Catholics in motion pictures--History--20th century.
Nationalism--United States--History--20th century.
Community life--United States--History--20th century.
United States--Social conditions--1933-1945.
United States--Social conditions--1945-
Cultural pluralism--United States--History--20th century.
United States--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

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.

Series:

CultureAmerica

ISBN:

0700617167 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780700617166 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2010005705

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)