Author : Peter Conn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,15 MB
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0521516404
A wholly new perspective on the literature and art of the 1930s by a leading scholar of the period.
Author : Jim Callan
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 17,33 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Nineteen thirties
ISBN :
The 1930s presented the United States with some of the toughest challenges it had ever faced. The decade started with a prolonged economic depression and ended with the start of World War II.
Author : T. H. Watkins
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316080439
This companion volume to the public television series delves into the events and impact of the Great Depression. The text is illustrated throughout with photos, documents, and posters, many previously unpublished.
Author : Laura Hapke
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 36,42 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820319087
Daughters of the Great Depression is a reinterpretation of more than fifty well-known and rediscovered works of Depression-era fiction that illuminate one of the decade's central conflicts: whether to include women in the hard-pressed workforce or relegate them to a literal or figurative home sphere. Laura Hapke argues that working women, from industrial wage earners to business professionals, were the literary and cultural scapegoats of the 1930s. In locating these key texts in the "don't steal a job from a man" furor of the time, she draws on a wealth of material not usually considered by literary scholars, including articles on gender and the job controversy; Labor Department Women's Bureau statistics; "true romance" stories and "fallen woman" films; studies of African American women's wage earning; and Fortune magazine pronouncements on white-collar womanhood. A valuable revisionist study, Daughters of the Great Depression shows how fiction's working heroines--so often cast as earth mothers, flawed mothers, lesser comrades, harlots, martyrs, love slaves, and manly or apologetic professionals--joined their real-life counterparts to negotiate the misogynistic labor climate of the 1930s.
Author : Susan Herbst
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,64 MB
Release : 2021-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 022681310X
Introduction: Birth of a Public -- President in the Maelstrom: FDR as Public Opinion Theorist -- Twisted Populism: Pollsters and Delusions of Citizenship -- A Consuming Public: The Strange and Magnificent New York World's Fair -- Radio Embraces Race and Immigration, Awkwardly -- Interlude: A Depression Needn't Be So Depressing -- Public Opinion and Its Problems: Some Ways Forward.
Author : Edmund Lindop
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 33,51 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761328327
Outlines the important social, political, economic, cultural, and technological events that happened in the United States from 1930 to 1939.
Author : David Eldridge
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 10,61 MB
Release : 2008-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0748629777
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.
Author : William H. Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 14,65 MB
Release : 2002-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313077479
Most historical studies bury us in wars and politics, paying scant attention to the everyday effects of pop culture. Welcome to America's other history—the arts, activities, common items, and popular opinions that profoundly impacted our national way of life. The twelve narrative chapters in this volume provide a textured look at everyday life, youth, and the many different sides of American culture during the 1930s. Additional resources include a cost comparison of common goods and services, a timeline of important events, notes arranged by chapter, an extensive bibliography for further reading, and a subject index. The dark cloud of the Depression shadowed most Americans' lives during the 1930s. Books, movies, songs, and stories of the 1930s gave Americans something to hope for by depicting a world of luxury and money. Major figures of the age included Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Irving Berlin, Amelia Earhart, Duke Ellington, the Marx Brothers, Margaret Mitchell, Cole Porter, Joe Louis, Babe Ruth, Shirley Temple, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Innovations in technology and travel hinted at a Utopian society just off the horizon, group sports and activities gave the unemployed masses ways to spend their days, and a powerful new demographic—the American teenager—suddenly found itself courted by advertisers and entertainers.
Author : Susan Ware
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 36,18 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
"Holding Their Own provides a lively overview of the often unrecognized contributions and experiences of American women during the Depression. Harvard historian Susan Ware analyzes the survival of feminism, the impact of popular culture, and the changing role of women at home and at work, and considers the achievements of such extraordinary women as Amelia Earhart, Lillian Hellman, Clare Boothe and Emma Goldman in the context of their time."--Book cover.
Author : Gary D. Best
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,60 MB
Release : 1993-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 027594395X
This study shows that, despite numerous surface similarities, the popular culture of the 1930s was different from that of the 1920s in a variety of ways, and not only because of the Great Depression. It was a period of quiet desperation and shifting values, one in which nickels and dimes replaced dollars as the currency of popular culture, and in which the emphasis was on finding methods to occupy idle time and idle minds. Popular culture during the 1930s is important for understanding not only how Americans coped, but why they did so with such good humor and so little of the discontent visible elsewhere in the world. An appreciation of popular culture during the 1930s is essential to understanding other aspects of the decade.
