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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748622597'); 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
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- Author
- David Nicholas Eldridge
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press Ltd
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780748622580
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Anthropology, History, Sociology
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