American Culture and Society Since the 1930s
Author: Christopher Brookeman
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780333294147
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American Culture in the 1930s
Author: David Eldridge
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2008-10-08
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0748629777
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The Modern Temper
Author: Lynn Dumenil
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1995-06-30
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780809015665
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Lynn Dumenil brings a fresh interpretation to a dramatic, important, and misunderstood decade. As her lively work makes clear, changing values brought an end to the repressive Victorian era; urban liberalism emerged; the federal bureaucracy was expanded; pluralism became increasingly important to America's heterogeneous society; and different religious, ethnic, and cultural groups encountered the homogenizing force of a powerful mass-consumer culture."--Book jacket.
The 1930s
Author: William H. Young
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2002-10-30
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 0313077479
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Americanism, Media and the Politics of Culture in 1930s France
Author: David A. Pettersen
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2016-05-20
Total Pages: 523
ISBN-13: 1783168528
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First book to focus on Americanism and its consideration of French film and literature The book is organized around individual figures, texts, and films, making it easy to adopt for individual units in courses. The book is written in clear, accessible, and jargon-free language. The book brings a new and innovative transatlantic perspective to 1930s French culture. The books offers new perspectives on important figures that we thought we knew well. The book mixes cultural history with the analysis of individual films and novels in a way that is engaging to read.
American Culture in the 1920s
Author: Susan Currell
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2009-03-21
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0748630856
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Introduces the major cultural and intellectual trends of the decade by introducing and assessing the development of the primary cultural forms: namely, Fiction, Poetry and Drama, Music and Performance, Film and Radio, and Visual Art and Design. A fifth chapter focuses on the unprecedented rise in the 1920s of Leisure and Consumption.
Voices of Protest
Author: Alan Brinkley
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-08-10
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0307803228
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The study of two great demagogues in American history--Huey P. Long, a first-term United States Senator from the red-clay, piney-woods country of nothern Louisiana; and Charles E. Coughlin, a Catholic priest from an industrial suburb near Detroit. Award-winning historian Alan Brinkely describes their modest origins and their parallel rise together in the early years of the Great Depression to become the two most successful leaders of national political dissidence of their era. *Winner of the American Book Award for History*
American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Eric Avila
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-07-17
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 019020060X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of Americans have imagined themselves, their nation, and their relationship to the world and its peoples. This Very Short Introduction recounts the history of American culture and its creation by diverse social and ethnic groups. In doing so, it emphasizes the historic role of culture in relation to broader social, political, and economic developments. Across the lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality, as well as language, region, and religion, diverse Americans have forged a national culture with a global reach, inventing stories that have shaped a national identity and an American way of life. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
American Culture in the 1940s
Author: Jacqueline Foertsch
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2008-03-27
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0748630341
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the major cultural forms of 1940s America - fiction and non-fiction; music and radio; film and theatre; serious and popular visual arts - and key texts, trends and figures, from Native Son to Citizen Kane, from Hiroshima to HUAC, and from Dr Seuss to Bob Hope. After discussing the dominant ideas that inform the 1940s the book culminates with a chapter on the 'culture of war'. Rather than splitting the decade at 1945, Jacqueline Foertsch argues persuasively that the 1940s should be taken as a whole, seeking out links between wartime and postwar American culture.
Everything Was Better in America
Author: David Welky
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008-05
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 0252032993
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