Title This side of despair : how the movies and American life intersected during the Great Depression / Philip Hanson.

Publication Info.	Madison [NJ] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2008]
	©2008

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PN1993.5.U6 H343 2008	Available	---

Description	247 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index.
Contents	1. Ducking prostitution -- 2. The war over World War I -- 3. Racial constructions of the thirties -- 4. U.S. foreign policy and shifting racial identity -- 5. Sexual politics and the depression -- 6. The arc of national confidence and the birth of film noir, 1929-41 -- 7. Escaping the thirties -- 8. The American contradiction
Subject	Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
	Motion pictures.
	United States.
	History.
	Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
	Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- United States.
	Motion pictures -- Political aspects.
ISBN	9780838641293 alkaline paper
	0838641296 alkaline paper