American Culture in the 1930s
Author | : David Eldridge |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2008-10-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780748629770 |
ISBN-13 | : 0748629777 |
Rating | : 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Download or read book American Culture in the 1930s written by David Eldridge and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.