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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Smith, Anthony Burke. "American Catholicism and the Construction of a Public Tradition, 1932-1962," American Studies Program, University of Minnesota, July 1995.
This dissertation, “American Catholicism and the Construction of a Public Tradition, 1932-1962,” is a cultural history of the Americanization of Catholics in the mid-twentieth century. It identifies a Catholic presence in American popular culture by examining the works of film director John Ford and television radio priest Fulton J. Sheen. Drawing upon recent theories of popular culture that suggest the complex character of mass media texts, I argue that Ford’s films and Sheen’s 1950s television show, Life is Worth Living, represent important dimensions of a Catholic engagement with American culture. I compare their popular Catholic expressions with the thoughts of John A. Ryan and John Courtney Murray to argue that Catholic Americanism was a much broader and more complicated project than assimilationist interpretations have suggested.
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