Eleanor Roosevelt on Screen
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-9302-6 (ISBN)
Eleanor Roosevelt recognized the power of film and television, especially as educational tools to reach young people. She hosted three political talk shows in the 1950s and early 1960s, often appearing in guest spots to promote the United Nations, Democratic candidates, and progressive issues with Ed Sullivan, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Mike Wallace, and Edward R. Murrow. In the 1930s and '40s, fan magazines such as Photoplay and Modern Screen published her opinions on the movies, and she boldly appeared in an interventionist prologue to the 1940 anti-Nazi film Pastor Hall. During World War II, she contributed to civil defense films and became a staple joke in Hollywood comedies. She also negotiated postwar representations of FDR on the big screen, culminating in 1960's Sunrise at Campobello, which portrayed her as the perfect wife.
This book is the first to address Eleanor Roosevelt's moving image record and her relationship to film and television in the three decades from the 1932 presidential campaign to her death in 1962.
Angela S. Beauchamp teaches film history and serves as the film and digital arts department administrator at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. Manipulating Gender Expectations
Part I—In the Movies
2. Reluctance to Speak
3. Film Industry Censorship
4. Isolationism and Pastor Hall
5. “Eleanor Roosevelt is a bad security risk”
6. Movies and the White House
7. “First Lady in Movie Debut!”
8. Women in Defense
9. Postwar on Film
10. Negotiating FDR on the Big Screen
11. Movie Recommendations
Part II—On Television
12. Early TV Appearances
13. Today with Mrs. Roosevelt
14. Mrs. Roosevelt Meets the Public
15. “Grand Old Lady of the Democratic Party”
16. Joseph Kennedy’s Son
17. Anti-Communist Crusades
18. Khrushchev: “At least we didn’t shoot at each other!”
19. Bringing Issues of Race to TV
20. The UN: “Naïveté and cunning gracefully blended”
21. Reminiscing and Inspiring
22. Prospects of Mankind
23. Signing Off
Conclusion
Appendix: Film and Television Appearances and References During Eleanor Roosevelt’s Lifetime
Filmography
Television Episodes
Works Cited
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 01.12.2023 |
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Zusatzinfo | 25 photos, appendix, filmography, bibliography, index |
Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
Gewicht | 499 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4766-9302-1 / 1476693021 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-9302-6 / 9781476693026 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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