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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.
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Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: David Eldridge |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Release |
: 2008-10-08 |
File |
: 288 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780748629770 |
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Many people have fond memories of Friday nights and Saturday afternoons spent in theatres watching cowboy stars of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s chase villains across the silver screen or help a heroine out of harm's way. Over 2,600 Westerns were produced between 1930 and 1955 and they became a defining part of American culture. This work focuses on the idea that Westerns were one of the vehicles by which viewers learned the values and norms of a wide range of social relationships and behavior, and thus examines the ways in which Western movies reflected American life and culture during this quarter century. Chapters discuss such topics as the ways that Westerns included current events in film plot and dialogue, reinforced the role of Christianity in American culture, reflected the emergence of a strong central government, and mirrored attitudes toward private enterprise. Also covered is how Westerns represented racial minorities, women, and Indians.
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Genre |
: Performing Arts |
Author |
: R. Philip Loy |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Release |
: 2015-10-05 |
File |
: 281 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780786481156 |
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A groundbreaking case study that links social and cultural interpretation with descriptive classification and historical context.
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Genre |
: Antiques & Collectibles |
Author |
: Jane Perkins Claney |
Publisher |
: UPNE |
Release |
: 2004 |
File |
: 222 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 1584654120 |
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Offers a timely introduction to the intersection of radical politics and American literature in the period of the Great Depression.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: William Solomon |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2018-09-20 |
File |
: 295 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781108429184 |
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This book illustrates African American writers' cultural production and political engagement despite the economic precarity of the 1930s.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Eve Dunbar |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 2022-04-07 |
File |
: 369 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781108472555 |
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Genre |
: Latin America |
Author |
: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Library |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1935 |
File |
: 22 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: STANFORD:36105118304562 |
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An invitation to mingle with Burke in the 30s and witness the development of his major works of the era
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Ann George |
Publisher |
: Univ of South Carolina Press |
Release |
: 2007 |
File |
: 348 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 1570037000 |
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Cultural history and themendment : New York Times v. Sullivan and its times / Kermit L. Hall -- New directions in American constitutional history -- Words as hard as cannon-balls : women's rights agitation -- And liberty of speech in nineteenth-century America / Sandra F. VanBurkleo -- Race, state, market, and civil society in constitutional history / Mark Tushnet -- Constitutional history and the "cultural turn" : cross -- Examining the legal-reelist narratives of Henry Fonda / Norman L. Rosenberg -- Contributors
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Sandra F. VanBurkleo |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 2002 |
File |
: 472 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015054242683 |
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In America, the long 1950s were marked by an intense skepticism toward utopian alternatives to the existing capitalist order. This skepticism was closely related to the climate of the Cold War, in which the demonization of socialism contributed to a dismissal of all alternatives to capitalism. This book studies how American novels and films of the long 1950s reflect the loss of the utopian imagination and mirror the growing concern that capitalism brought routinization, alienation, and other dehumanizing consequences. The volume relates the decline of the utopian vision to the rise of late capitalism, with its expanding globalization and consumerism, and to the beginnings of postmodernism. In addition to well-known literary novels, such as Nabokov's Lolita, Booker explores a large body of leftist fiction, popular novels, and the films of Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney. The book argues that while the canonical novels of the period employ a utopian aesthetic, that aesthetic tends to be very weak and is not reinforced by content. The leftist novels, on the other hand, employ a realist aesthetic but are utopian in their exploration of alternatives to capitalism. The study concludes that the utopian energies in cultural productions of the long 1950s are very weak, and that these works tend to dismiss utopian thinking as na^Dive or even sinister. The weak utopianism in these works tends to be reflected in characteristics associated with postmodernism.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: M. Keith Booker |
Publisher |
: Praeger |
Release |
: 2002-01-30 |
File |
: 248 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015053477090 |
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Coming Home: American Paintings, 1930/1950, from the Schoen CollectionCatalog of a traveling exhibition held at the Mobile Museum of Art, the Georgia Museum of Art, and three other institutions between Oct. 17, 2003 and Nov. 27, 2005.
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Genre |
: Art |
Author |
: Erika Doss |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art |
Release |
: 2003 |
File |
: 348 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015077601022 |