Dancing in the dark : a cultural history of the Great Depression / Morris Dickstein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, Edition: 1st edDescription: xxiii, 598 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393072259
  • 0393072258
  • 9780393338768
  • 0393338762
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 973.91 22
LOC classification:
  • E806 .D57 2009
NLM classification:
  • 973.91 D554d
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Depression culture -- pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. Success and failure -- Beyond the American dream -- What price Hollywood? -- The last film of the 1930s; or, Nothing fails like success -- pt. 3. The culture of elegance -- Fantasy, elegance, mobility : the dream life of the 1930s -- Class for the masses : elegance democratized -- pt. 4. 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.
Awards:
  • New York Times 100 notable books of 2009.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-564) and index.

Introduction: Depression culture -- pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. Success and failure -- Beyond the American dream -- What price Hollywood? -- The last film of the 1930s; or, Nothing fails like success -- pt. 3. The culture of elegance -- Fantasy, elegance, mobility : the dream life of the 1930s -- Class for the masses : elegance democratized -- pt. 4. 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.

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.

New York Times 100 notable books of 2009.

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