| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxiii, 598 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-564) and index. |
| Contents |
Depression culture -- Discovering poverty. The tenement and the world : immigrant lives ; The starvation army ; The country and the city ; Hard times for poets ; Black girls and native sons -- Success and failure. Beyond the American dream ; What price Hollywood? ; The last film of the 1930s, or, Nothing fails like success -- The culture of elegance. Fantasy, elegance, mobility : the dream life of the 1930s ; Class for the masses : elegance democratized -- The search for community. The populist turn : Copland and the popular front ; Who cares? : the world of Porgy and Bess ; The People vs. Frank Capra : populism against itself ; Shakespeare in overalls : an American troubadour -- Gender trouble : exposing the intellectuals ; Conclusion : the work of culture in Depression America. |
| Summary |
Dancing in the Dark shows how our worst economic crisis, as it eroded American individualism and punctured the American dream, produced in the 1930s some of the greatest writing, photography, and mass entertainment ever seen in this country. |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Popular culture. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945.
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Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
1918-1945 |
| Subject |
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Intellectual life. |
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945.
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Manners and customs. |
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Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
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Depressions. |
| Chronological Term |
1929 |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
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| Chronological Term |
1933-1945 |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- 1919-1933.
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| Chronological Term |
1919-1933 |
| ISBN |
9780393072259 hardcover $29.95 |
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0393072258 hardcover |
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