Research Catalog

Title

American culture in the 1930s / David Eldridge.

Author

Eldridge, David (David Nicholas), 1973-

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2008.

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Details

Description

xxvii, 259 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

From the Publisher: This book provides an insightful overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s 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 1930s 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 States in the 1930s. Key Features: 3 case studies per chapter featuring key texts, genres, writers and artists. Chronology of 1930s American Culture. Bibliographies for each chapter.

Series Statement

Twentieth-century American culture

Uniform Title

Twentieth-century American culture.

Subject

• Geschichte 1930-1939
• 1918-1945
• Culture > United States
• United States > Civilization > 1918-1945

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-248) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of figures -- List of case studies -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology of 1930s American culture -- Introduction: Intellectual context -- 1: Literature and drama -- 2: Film and photography -- 3: Music and radio -- 4: Art and design -- 5: New Deal culture -- Conclusion: Cultural legacy of the 1930s -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 0748622586 (cased)
• 9780748622580 (cased)
• 0748622594 (pbk.)
• 9780748622597 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009379436

OCLC

• 226360318
• SCSB-11197472

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library