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100 1 $aDickstein, Morris.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88137519
245 10 $aDancing in the dark :$ba cultural history of the Great Depression /$cMorris Dickstein.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $axxiii, 598 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction: Depression Culture --$gPt. 1.$tDiscovering Poverty --$g2.$tThe Tenement and the World: Immigrant Lives --$g3.$tThe Starvation Army --$g4.$tThe Country and the City --$g5.$tHard Times for Poets --$g6.$tBlack Girls and Native Sons --$gPt. 2.$tSuccess and Failure --$g7.$tBeyond the American Dream --$g8.$tWhat Price Hollywood? --$g9.$tThe Last Film of the 1930s; or, Nothing Fails like Success --$gPt. 3.$tThe Culture of Elegance --$g10.$tFantasy, Elegance, Mobility: The Dream Life of the 1930s --$g11.$tClass for the Masses: Elegance Democratized --$gPt. 4.$tThe Search for Community --$g12.$tThe Populist Turn: Copland and the Popular Front --$g13.$tWho Cares?: The World of Porgy and Bess --$g14.$tThe People vs. Frank Capra: Populism against Itself --$g15.$tShakespeare in Overalls: An American Troubadour --$g16.$tGender Trouble: Exposing the Intellectuals --$g17.$tConclusion: The Work of Culture in Depression America.
520 1 $a"Only yesterday the Great Depression seemed like a bad memory, receding into the hazy distance with little relevance to our own flush times. Economists assured us that the calamities that befell our grandparents could not happen again, yet the recent economic meltdown has once again riveted the world's attention on the 1930s. Now, in this cultural history, Morris Dickstein explores the anxiety and hope, the despair and surprising optimism of a traumatized nation. Whether analyzing the influence of film, design, literature, theater, or music, Dickstein demonstrates how the arts were then so integral to the fabric of American society." "While any lover of American literature knows Fitzgerald and Steinbeck, Dickstein also reclaims the lives of other novelists whose work offers enduring insights. Nathanael West saw Los Angeles as a vast dream dump, a Sargasso Sea of tawdry longing that exposed the pinched and disappointed lives of ordinary people, while Erskine Caldwell, his books Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre festooned with lurid covers, provided the most graphic portrayal of rural destitution in the 1930s. Dickstein also immerses us in the visions of Zora Neale Hurston and Henry Roth, only later recognized for their literary masterpieces." "Just as Dickstein radically transforms our understanding of Depression literature, he explodes the prevailing myths that 1930s musicals and movies were merely escapist. Whether describing the undertone of sadness that lurks just below the surface of Cole Porter's bubbly world or stressing the darker side of Frank Capra's wildly popular films, he shows how they delivered a catharsis of pain and an evangel of hope. Dickstein suggests that the tragic and comic worlds of Broadway and Hollywood preserved a radiance and energy that became a bastion against social suffering." "Retrieving the stories of an entire generation of performers and writers, Dancing in the Dark shows how a rich, panoramic culture both exposed and helped alleviate the national trauma. This work is a study of one of America's most remarkable artistic periods."--BOOK JACKET.
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651 0 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140367
651 0 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$y1918-1945.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140540
650 0 $aDepressions$y1929$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85037059
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$y1933-1945.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140299
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$y1919-1933.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140298
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