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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454181903321

Autore

Eldridge David (David Nicholas), <1973->

Titolo

American culture in the 1930s / / David Eldridge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-94766-0

9786611947668

0-7486-2977-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Twentieth-Century American Culture

Disciplina

306.097309043

Soggetti

Culture

Culture - United States

Electronic books.

United States Civilization 1918-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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