LEADER 02603nam 22005653u 450 001 9910454181903321 005 20210823222942.0 010 $a1-281-94766-0 010 $a9786611947668 010 $a0-7486-2977-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000556787 035 $a(EBL)380394 035 $a(OCoLC)437240910 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000101997 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11555804 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000101997 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10050580 035 $a(PQKB)11483709 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC380394 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000556787 100 $a20130418d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican culture in the 1930s /$fDavid Eldridge 210 $aEdinburgh $cEdinburgh University Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 225 1 $aTwentieth-Century American Culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7486-2258-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCOVER; 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 330 $aThis book provides an insightful overview of the major cultural forms of 1930's America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and a chapter on the role of the federal government in the development of the arts. The intellectual context of 1930's American culture is a strong feature, whilst case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade - from War of the Worlds to The Grapes of Wrath and from Edward Hopper to the Rockefeller Centre - help to explain the cultural impulses of radicalism, nationalism and escapism that characterize the United 410 0$aTwentieth-Century American Culture 606 $aCulture 606 $aCulture$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y1918-1945 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aCulture. 615 0$aCulture 676 $a306.097309043 700 $aEldridge$b David$g(David Nicholas),$f1973-$01038059 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454181903321 996 $aAmerican culture in the 1930s$92459403 997 $aUNINA