The Cross-Class Romance in the Depression
In some cross-class romances, there is little if any acknowledgment of the Depression, but in other films, the Depression is shown to weigh heavily on the dilemmas faced by working-class heroines. A major experience of both men and women during the Depres
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Love and Marriage Across Social Classes in American Cinema
Stephen Sharot
Love and Marriage Across Social Classes in American Cinema
Stephen Sharot Department of Sociology and Anthropology Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Tel Aviv, Israel
ISBN 978-3-319-41798-1 ISBN 978-3-319-41799-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41799-8
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For Guy, Livia, Noam, and Leo
CONTENTS
Preface
xi
1
Love, Marriage and Class
1
2
Before the Movies: The Cross-Class Romance in Fiction
21
3
From Attraction and the One-Reeler to the Feature
49
4
Sexual Exploitation and Class Conflict
83
5
Consumerism and Ethnicity
121
6
The Cross-Class Romance in the Depression
163
7
Male Seducers and Female Gold-Diggers
195
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viii
CONTENTS
8
The End of the Golden Era and After
227
9
Conclusion: Formula, Genre, and Social Experience
259
Index
267
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I have drawn upon the following of my articles for portions of this book and I would like to thank the journals’ editors. “Class Rise as a Reward for Disinterested Love: Cross-Class Romance Films, 1915–1928,” Journal of Popular Culture 43.3 (June 2010): 583–99. “The ‘New Woman’, Star Personas, and Cross-Class Romance Films in the 1920s,” Journal for Gender Studies 19.1 (March 2010): 73–86. “Wealth and/or Love: Class and Gender in Cross-Class Romance Films of the Great Depression,” Journal of American Studies 47.1 (2013): 89–108. “Social Class in Female Star Personas and the Cross-Class Romance Formula in Depression America,” Screen 56.2 (Summer, 2015): 172–194.
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PREFACE
The cross
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