Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film

by John E. Bodnar

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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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John Bodnar is professor of history and director of the Oral History Research Center at Indiana University.

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