BONNIE: Welcome, you’re listening to an episode of the Crisis and Catharsis podcast, where we explore stories of how people have found relief in times of crisis, focusing on artistic expression, like literature, music and art, but also expression in daily life, like cuisine and oral histories. This episode focuses on Hollywood and the use of movies to get the United States to enter World War II, but how they also functioned as mass entertainment in a precarious period for many Americans. My name is Bonnie Soper, I’m a PhD student at Stony Brook University who studies religious and political dissidence in early modern Scotland. Today I will be asking questions and interviewing Devin Kelly. Devin has a masters degree in public history from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and currently works in Collections at the Cape Fear Museum of History and Science.

Keep listening if  you want to learn more about war propaganda and the changing nature of women and citizenship during the 1940s …

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