Poetry, Politics, and the Problem Film: How Pare Lorentz used American government bureaucracy to dramatise the nation, 1935-1941

Advisors: Kimberly Phillips-Fein (Columbia), Dina Gusejnova (LSE)

Pare Lorentz (left) with his camera crew in October 1935. Photo by Dorothea Lange. Lorentz, Pare. FDR’s Moviemaker: Memoirs & Scripts. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1992. p.4