American Culture in the 1930s
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:8th Oct '08
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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.Key Features:* 3 case studies per chapter featuring key texts, genres, writers and artists* Chronology of 1930s American Culture* Bibliographies for each chapter* 22 black and white illustrations
This particular volume will be of interest to historians of American culture who are not specialists in the interwar period, and it would also be a good book for instructors to consider using in undergraduate courses on the period. The book contains detailed timelines of various cultural developments in the 1930s as well as a thorough and well-chosen bibliography, features that add to a solid synthetic cultural history of the 1930s. -- Michael Stamm, Michigan State University * American Journalism *
This particular volume will be of interest to historians of American culture who are not specialists in the interwar period, and it would also be a good book for instructors to consider using in undergraduate courses on the period. The book contains detailed timelines of various cultural developments in the 1930s as well as a thorough and well-chosen bibliography, features that add to a solid synthetic cultural history of the 1930s. -- Michael Stamm, Michigan State university * American Journalism *
"the book's main strength is in its balanced analysis, strongest in the fine chapters on film and photography, music and radio, and New Deal culture. As a result of this nuanced approach, American Culture in the 1930's can act as more than a wonderful primer for sixth formers and undergraduates - Eldridge suggests room for the critical reassessment of areas of cultural production, inviting further academic research and discussion, and thereby a deepening understanding of this astonishing decade." -- Niall Munro, Oxford Brookes University * American Studies Today, Issue 19 *
Each chapter handles a different form of 1930s expression with a sure and light touch, and Eldridge’s synchronic approach matches the multifarious ethos of the era very well. -- Catherine Gander, University of East Anglia * Journal of American Studies *
Vivid, wide-ranging and original, David Eldridge is a perceptive guide, conducting his readers through the maze of American culture in the 1930s. This is a book to inspire students, inform general readers and challenge scholars to generate further research. -- Nicholas J. Cull, Director of the Public Diplomacy Program, University of Southern California
ISBN: 9780748622580
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 628g
288 pages