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Dancing in the dark : a cultural history of the Great Depression
- Title
- Dancing in the dark : a cultural history of the Great Depression / Morris Dickstein.
- Author
- Dickstein, Morris.
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton, ©2009.
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Details
- Description
- xxiii, 598 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Dancing in the Dark shows how our worst economic crisis, as it eroded American individualism and punctured the American dream, produced in the 1930s some of the greatest writing, photography, and mass entertainment ever seen in this country.
- Subjects
- Popular culture
- United States
- Depressions
- 1900-1999
- United States > History > 1933-1945
- History
- Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century
- Manners and customs
- Depressions > 1929 > United States
- Intellectual life
- HISTORY > Social History
- Civilization
- United States > Intellectual life > 20th century
- United States > Civilization > 1918-1945
- United States > History > 1919-1933
- United States > Social life and customs > 1918-1945
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-564) and index.
- Awards (note)
- New York Times 100 notable books of 2009.
- Contents
- Introduction: Depression culture -- pt. 1. Discovering poverty -- The tenement and the world : immigrant lives -- The starvation army -- The country and the city -- Hard times for poets -- Black girls and native sons -- pt. 2. Success and failure -- Beyond the American dream -- What price Hollywood? -- The last film of the 1930s; or, Nothing fails like success -- pt. 3. The culture of elegance -- Fantasy, elegance, mobility : the dream life of the 1930s -- Class for the masses : elegance democratized -- pt. 4. The search for community -- The populist turn : Copland and the popular front -- Who cares? : the world of Porgy and Bess -- The People vs. Frank Capra : populism against itself -- Shakespeare in overalls : an American troubadour -- Gender trouble : exposing the intellectuals -- Conclusion : The work of culture in Depression America.
- Call Number
- ILH10-1436
- ISBN
- 9780393072259
- 0393072258
- LCCN
- 2009017389
- OCLC
- 317473436
- Author
- Dickstein, Morris.
- Title
- Dancing in the dark : a cultural history of the Great Depression / Morris Dickstein.
- Imprint
- New York : W.W. Norton, ©2009.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-564) and index.
- Awards
- New York Times 100 notable books of 2009.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- ILH10-1436