ISBN:
9780748622580
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (289 p.)
Series Statement:
Twentieth-Century American Culture
Parallel Title:
Print version American Culture in the 1930s
DDC:
306.097309043
Keywords:
Culture ; United States
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United States ; Civilization ; 1918-1945
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book provides an insightful overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and a chapter on the role of the federal government in the development of the arts. The intellectual context of 1930s American culture is a strong feature, whilst case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade - from War of the Worlds to The Grapes of Wrath and from Edward Hopper to the Rockefeller Centre - help to explain the cultural impulses of radicalism, nationalism and escapism that characterize the United
Description / Table of Contents:
COVER; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Case Studies; Acknowledgements; Chronology of 1930s American Culture; Introduction: The Intellectual Context; Chapter 1 Literature and Drama; Chapter 2 Film and Photography; Chapter 3 Music and Radio; Chapter 4 Art and Design; Chapter 5 New Deal Culture; Conclusion: The Cultural Legacy of the 1930s; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748629770
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