MARGARET T McFADDEN
Biographic Data
| ID | 6041443 |
|---|---|
| NAME | MARGARET T McFADDEN |
| GIVEN NAMES | MARGARET T |
| FAMILY NAME | McFADDEN |
| SIGNATURE | MCFADDEN M T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Yoo-Hoo, Prosperity!”
This essay argues that Eddie Cantor was so popular across so many different media in the early years of the Great Depression because his complex comic persona enabled him to address prevailing anxieties and to use the license of comedy to offer a strong class critique of the rich and powerful, to symbolically restore lost masculinity and normative gender relations, and to present a vision of a more inclusive white American identity at a time of p…
Shall We Dance
America's Boy Friend Who Can't Get a Date
Journal Article “America's Boy Friend Who Can't Get a Date”: Gender, Race, and the Cultural Work of the Jack Benny Program, 1932–1946 Get access Margaret T. McFadden Margaret T. McFadden Ph.D. candidate in American studies Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 123–134, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079699 Published: 01 June 1993
America's Boy Friend Who Can't Get a Date
Journal Article “America's Boy Friend Who Can't Get a Date”: Gender, Race, and the Cultural Work of the Jack Benny Program, 1932–1946 Get access Margaret T. McFadden Margaret T. McFadden Ph.D. candidate in American studies Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 123–134, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079699 Published: 01 June 1993
America's Boy Friend Who Can't Get a Date
Journal Article “America's Boy Friend Who Can't Get a Date”: Gender, Race, and the Cultural Work of the Jack Benny Program, 1932–1946 Get access Margaret T. McFadden Margaret T. McFadden Ph.D. candidate in American studies Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 123–134, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079699 Published: 01 June 1993
Shall We Dance
“Yoo-Hoo, Prosperity!”
This essay argues that Eddie Cantor was so popular across so many different media in the early years of the Great Depression because his complex comic persona enabled him to address prevailing anxieties and to use the license of comedy to offer a strong class critique of the rich and powerful, to symbolically restore lost masculinity and normative gender relations, and to present a vision of a more inclusive white American identity at a time of p…
Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Theater, Performance, and Music History (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (1 work) · Class (philosophy (1 work)