[Chopra-Gant, Mike. . Hollywood genres and postwar America : masculinity, family and nation in popular movies and film noir / Mike Chopra-Gant. 1850438153 (hbk.) series London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.  Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.U65 C495 2006]

Gant, Mike Chopra. Hollywood Genres and Postwar America: Masculinity, Family, and Nation in Popular Movies and Film Noir. New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
 2006.

Focus is mainly on which films were popular from 1945-1949 and analyzes the themes expressed
within these movies. However, undercurrents of many of the themes in "The Philadelphia Story"
are covered within Gant's chapters:
    Ch. Two: Re-invigorating the nation: popular films and American national identity
        "The myth of classlessness"-- gives many examples from "The Best Years of
        our Lives" that veterans who came home received issues of class to be resolved
        which they quickly discovered were not; America was still perceived to be quite classist
        "Modernizing the American hero"
        "The Absent Father"
        "Stars and Performance"