Fallen-women, backstage musicals, social-problem films, and "anarchic" comedies—were distinctly connected to the economic distress of the early 1930s and the social-psychological anxieties it produced. Filmmakers were more likely to make, and audiences were more likely to respond to, films that called into question dominant attitudes toward sexuality, upper-class respectability, and the institutions of law and order.
Ecomomic Instability
The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) demonstrated how the drought, dust storms, and market collapse forced Great Plains farmers to leave the land, then concluded with the government's plan of resettlement and soil conservation.
Social-Psychological Anxiety
Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia.
Little Caesar (1931)
Scarface (1932)
Public Enemy (1931)
Fallen Women
Susan Lenox, Her Fall and Rise, 1931 (Gretta Garbo)
Possessed, 1931 (Joan Crawford)
Rain, 1932 (Joan Crawford)
Blonde Venus, 1932 (Marlene Dietrich )
Red Dust (Jean Harlow )
Red-Headed Woman (Jean Harlow )
Backstage Musicals
The Gold Diggers of 1933
42nd Street
Social Problem Films
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Wild Boys of the Road (1933)
Our Daily Bread (1934)
Anarchic Comedies
Duck Soup (1933)
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
I'm No Angel (1934)
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