| Description |
xi, 284 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
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CultureAmerica
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Priests, gangsters, and cowboys : Catholic outsiders, American insiders, and the struggle 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. |
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Catholics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Catholics in motion pictures -- History -- 20th century.
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Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Community life -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
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Cultural pluralism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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United States -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
9780700617166 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0700617167 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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