Dancing in the Dark A Cultural History of the Great Depression

Name: Dancing in the Dark A Cultural History of the Great Depression
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ISBN: 9780393338768

ISBN-10: 0393338762

ISBN-13: 9780393338768

Edition: 2010

Authors: Morris Dickstein

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Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/6/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 626
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface



Introduction: 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


Acknowledgments


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Illustrations and Permissions


Index