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Autore |
Eldridge David (David Nicholas), <1973-> |
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Titolo |
American culture in the 1930s / / David Eldridge |
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Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-94766-0 |
9786611947668 |
0-7486-2977-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Collana |
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Twentieth-Century American Culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Culture |
Culture - United States |
Electronic books. |
United States Civilization 1918-1945 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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COVER; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Case Studies; Acknowledgements; Chronology of 1930's 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 1930's; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book provides an insightful overview of the major cultural forms of 1930's 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 1930's 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 |
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