American culture in the 1930s / / David Eldridge

• Autore: Eldridge David (David Nicholas), <1973->
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.097309043
• Soggetto topico: Culture; Culture - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Civilization 1918-1945
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: American culture in the 1930s
• ISBN: 1-281-94766-0; 9786611947668; 0-7486-2977-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454181903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Twentieth-Century American Culture