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State of the Union: the play, the film, and the progress of the isolationist bogey

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dc.contributor.authorGrant, David
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-14
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-31T01:15:44Z
dc.date.available2022-05-31T01:15:44Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThis article argues that the adaptation of the play State of the Union into a film made the changes to the original that were necessary in a rapidly developing Cold War political culture. Helpful in this project was the way in which a Cold War culture had borrowed from an earlier form of postwar internationalism. In particular, it appropriated the demonization of isolationists as breeders of a corrupt domestic American political system that threatened republicanism and world peace alike. Indeed, the continuity in the representation of isolationists in the immediate postwar period of the play and the very different period of the film helped to lend legitimacy to the otherwise new Cold War rhetoric. The film, therefore, was able to make only minor revisions to the play and yet serve entirely different ideological purposes.
dc.description.urihttps://library.macewan.ca/full-record/hlh/118851446
dc.identifier.citationGrant, David. “State of the Union: The Play, the Film, and the Progress of the Isolationist Bogey.” Journal of American Studies, vol. 50, no. 4, Nov. 2016, pp. 1021–11038. America: History and Life with Full Text, doi:10.1017/S0021875815001231.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875815001231
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/1882
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved
dc.subjectState of the Union
dc.subjectCold War political culture
dc.subjectpostwar internationalism
dc.subjectisolationists
dc.subjectAmerican political system
dc.subjectCold War rhetoric
dc.subjectimmediate postwar period
dc.titleState of the Union: the play, the film, and the progress of the isolationist bogeyen
dc.typeArticle

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