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Dancing In The Dark "A Cultural History Of The Great Depression"

A Cultural History Of The Great Depression

Dancing In The Dark "A Cultural History Of The Great Depression". A Cultural History Of The Great Depression

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  • ISBN:9780393072259
  • Editorial: Norton
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  • Nº Pág.:576
  • Idiomas:Inglés,Ingles

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From Astaire to Steinbeck, this timely and long-awaited history of the 1930s sets the creative energies of the Great Depression against a backdrop of poverty and economic disaster. Gathering a staggering range of materials - from images of rural poverty to zany screwball comedies, wildly popular swing band music and streamlined art deco designs - this eloquent work highlights the pivotal role of culture and government intervention in hard times. Exploding the myth that Depression culture was merely escapist, it concentrates on the dynamic energy and insight the arts could provide and the enormous lift they gave to the American nation's morale. "Dancing in the Dark" shows how America's worst economic crisis, as it eroded individualism and punctured the American dream, produced some of the country's greatest writing, photography and mass entertainment.

1 Introduction: Depression Culture 3
Pt. 1 Discovering Poverty
2 The Tenement and the World: Immigrant Lives 15
3 The Starvation Army 50
4 The Country and the City 92
5 Hard Times for Poets 154
6 Black Girls and Native Sons 173
Pt. 2 Success and Failure
7 Beyond the American Dream 215
8 What Price Hollywood? 311
9 The Last Film of the 1930s; or, Nothing Fails like Success 342
Pt. 3 The Culture of Elegance
10 Fantasy, Elegance, Mobility: The Dream Life of the 1930s 357
11 Class for the Masses: Elegance Democratized 408
Pt. 4 The Search for Community
12 The Populist Turn: Copland and the Popular Front 441
13 Who Cares?: The World of Porgy and Bess 464
14 The People vs. Frank Capra: Populism against Itself 477
15 Shakespeare in Overalls: An American Troubadour 496
16 Gender Trouble: Exposing the Intellectuals 507
17 Conclusion: The Work of Culture in Depression America 522

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