'This business of America': Fan mail, film reception, and Meet John Doe

Screen

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 111-128

  Smoodin, Eric ^a  

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EID: 61449510988     PISSN: 00369543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/screen/37.2.111     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. David Morley, The 'Nationwide' Audience (London: British Film Institute, 1980)
2. Janet Staiger, Interpreting Films: Studies in the Historical Reception of American Cinema (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), ch. 6
3. Steven J. Ross, 'Struggles for the screen: workers, radicals, and the political uses of silent film', American Historical Review, vol. 96, no. 2(1991), pp. 333-67
4. Barbara Foley, Radical Representations: Politics and Form in US Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1993)
5. ' "Compulsory" viewing for every citizen: Mr Smith and the rhetoric of reception', Cinema Journal, vol. 35, no. 2 (1996)
6. Alva Johnston, 'Capra shoots as he pleases', The Saturday Evening Post, 14 May 1938, p. 72
7. Geoffrey T. Hellman, 'Profiles: thinker in Hollywood', The New Yorker, 24 February 1940, pp. 23-4
8. Frank Capra, The Name Above the Title: an Autobiography (New York The MacMillan Company, 1971)
9. Textbooks brought to book', Time, 3 March 1941, pp. 39-40
10. 'Youth hear defense plea', Los Angeles Times, 7 March 1941, part I p. 12
11. Nick Browne, 'System of production/system of representation: industry context and ideological form in Capra's Meet John Doe', in Charles Wolfe (ed.), Meet John Doe (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989), pp. 284-5
12. 'Folk songs in the White House', 3 March 1941, p. 57
13. 'Democracy on pedestals', 24 February 1941, p. 66
14. 'Eva [sic] Curie arrives in city', 7 March 1941, part II, pp. 1-2
15. 'Philip F. La Follette will speak Monday', 7 March 1941, part II, p. 2
16. '"I Am an American" leaders selected', 7 March 1941, part II, p. 1
17. 'Get your tickets today for Foster mass meeting', The Daily Worker, 14 March 1941, p. 4
18. Gary Gerstle, The protean character of American liberalism', American Historical Review, vol. 99, no. 4(1994), pp. 1043-73