For some discussion of Roosevelt in forties films see Dana
Polan's wonderful book, "Power & Paranoia: History,
Narrative, and the American Cinema, 1940-1950." The
interesting thing about the Roosevelt decade is that
filmmakers considered FDR unrepresentable. He might appear
through a surrogate, as in the California refugee camp
director in "Grapes of Wrath," or as a figure shot only
from behind in "Yankee Doodle Dandy."
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Robert Kolker
English Department
University of Maryland
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