Titlebook: Cecil B. DeMille, Classical Hollywood, and Modern American Mass Culture; 1910–1960 David Blanke Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and

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Behold Their Mighty Hands,emarkable late-career success was based largely on his ability to refashion an appealing and popular brand that was manifest in the public’s awareness of a unique “DeMille genre.” Noting the struggles, at mid-century, by both industry insiders and academics to come to terms with a rapidly changing m

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Re-Locating DeMille,es the main arguments of this text. The chapter’s title is taken from a play written by a young, pre-Hollywood DeMille, where a dead man’s ghost returns to correct the wrongs he committed throughout his life. Following his own death, in January, 1959, DeMille’s “ghost” first appeared through numerou

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A New and Filmable Past,s official contribution to the 1939 New York World’s Fair and by far the most popular attraction on the Midway. Examining the director’s extensive production notes, one sees an early expression of American consensual history that mirrored contemporary academic trends in the years immediately preceding the Second World War.

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Greetings from Mr. Hollywood,c ideals first faced the harsh economic realities of block-booking, the star system, and other corporate practices that controlled access to the mass audience. The concluding section examines DeMille’s return to Paramount, in 1932, and his rise as industry spokesman.

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Book 2018ated studios. DeMille’s sudden mid-career shift away from spectator perversity to corporate propagandist permanently tarnished the director’s historical standing among scholars, yet should not overshadow the profound links between his success and the rise and fall of mid-century mass culture..

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James J. Solberg,Joseph A. Heims official contribution to the 1939 New York World’s Fair and by far the most popular attraction on the Midway. Examining the director’s extensive production notes, one sees an early expression of American consensual history that mirrored contemporary academic trends in the years immediately preceding the Second World War.

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Houda Mezouar,Abdellatif El Afias insider “tell-all’s” that mocked him as a hypocritical martinet with odd sexual fetishes. But the director’s public appeal remained strong—particularly through the annual television broadcast of .—and raises the question of why this is so.