02603nam 22005653u 450 991045418190332120210823222942.01-281-94766-097866119476680-7486-2977-7(CKB)1000000000556787(EBL)380394(OCoLC)437240910(SSID)ssj0000101997(PQKBManifestationID)11555804(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000101997(PQKBWorkID)10050580(PQKB)11483709(MiAaPQ)EBC380394(EXLCZ)99100000000055678720130418d2008 uy 0engtxtccrAmerican culture in the 1930s /David EldridgeEdinburgh Edinburgh University Press20081 online resource (289 p.)Twentieth-Century American CultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-7486-2258-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThis 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 UnitedTwentieth-Century American CultureCultureCultureUnited StatesUnited StatesCivilization1918-1945Electronic books.Culture.Culture306.097309043Eldridge David(David Nicholas),1973-1038059AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910454181903321American culture in the 1930s2459403UNINA