In 1936, director John Ford claimed to be making movies for a new kind of public” that wanted more honest pictures. In this insightful and stimulating book Cassano argues that this new kind of public
In A New Kind of Public: Community, Solidarity, and Political Economy in New Deal Cinema, 1935-1948, Graham Cassano examines the contending ways in which New Deal cinema attempted to explain the cause
"Home Front examines the gendered exploitation of labor in the household from a postmodern Marxian perspective. The authors of this volume use the anti-foundationalist Marxian economic theories first
Eleanor Smith’s Hull House Songs: The Music of Protest and Hope in Jane Addams’s Chicago reprints Eleanor Smith’s 1916 folio of politically engaged songs, together with interdisciplinary critical comm
Within the current landscape of economic and political crisis, Cassano (sociology, Oakland U.) and Dello Buono (sociology, Manhattan College) find a renewed space for resurgence of the political left,
The world has entered a sustained period of crisis, and in order to understand the forces that created our social world, we need the tools provided by a critical sociology. This volume draws upon the
