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Title: | James Cagney, Outside/inside: Assimilation of a New York City star in 1930s Hollywood |
Author(s): | Tracey, Grant Annis George |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Carringer, Robert L. |
Department / Program: | English |
Discipline: | English |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | History, United States
Cinema |
Abstract: | My dissertation examines the reception of James Cagney in the light of ethnicity and immigration in the 1930s. I contend that it is only in this era that Cagney represents an inbetween type. His Irish-American catholicism marks him as subordinate to the W.A.S.P. mainstream and simultaneously positions him as a figure of influence over other New York ethnic newcomers (Italians, Jews, Poles, and Slavs). To star studies I combine close readings of thirteen 1930s films (including Blonde Crazy (1931), Mayor of Hell (1933), Here Comes the Navy (1934), and Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)) with a concern for linking text to historical context (the Payne Studies, James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan novels, and other representations of the working class which comprise a large number of "new" immigrants). |
Issue Date: | 1994 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/20020 |
Rights Information: | Copyright 1994 Tracey, Grant Annis George |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2011-05-07 |
Identifier in Online Catalog: | AAI9512574 |
OCLC Identifier: | (UMI)AAI9512574 |
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