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Article: Saint Mazie; A socialist-feminist understanding of film in Tillie Olsen's Yonnondio: From the Thirties.(Critical Essay)
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- Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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Film answered two contemporary needs--a more dynamic and imaginative
form of expression to match the inventive new conceits of "modern art"
that were bursting the old forms at the seams in all other spheres; and
a social vision of our industrial world that could best be conveyed by
the machine-oriented, collective medium which films are.
Tom Brandon, member of the New York Film and Photo League, a 1930s
radical film group (1)
Literary and film scholars such as Paula Rabinowitz, Michael Denning, and Saverio Giovacchini have increasingly been challenging reductive and dismissive Cold War accounts of 1930s American culture and politics. These scholars' intensive ...