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100 1 $aDickstein, Morris.
245 10 $aDancing in the dark :$ba cultural history of the Great Depression /$cMorris Dickstein.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York, N.Y. :$bW.W. Norton & Co.,$cc2009.
300 $axxiii, 598 p. :$bill., ports. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [533]-564) and index.
500 $aFirst published as a paperback 2010 -- From title page verso.
505 0 $aDepression 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 -- The work of culture in Depression America.
520 $aThis work 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. From Astaire to Steinbeck, this timely history of the 1930s sets the creative energies of the Great Depression against a backdrop of poverty and economic disaster. Gathering a staggering range of materials, from images of rural poverty to zany screwball comedies, wildly popular swing band music and streamlined art deco designs, this work highlights the pivotal role of culture and government intervention in hard times. Exploding the myth that Depression culture was merely escapist, it concentrates on the dynamic energy and insight the arts could provide and the enormous lift they gave to the American nation's morale.
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