TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dickstein,Morris
TI  - Dancing in the dark: a cultural history of the Great Depression 
SN  - 9780393072259
AV  - E806 .D57 2009
U1  - 973.91 22
PY  - 0000///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Depressions
KW  - 1929
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Social History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Civilization
KW  - fast
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Wirtschaftskrise
KW  - gnd
KW  - Soziale Situation
KW  - Kultur
KW  - Weltwirtschaftskrise
KW  - Kulturhistoria
KW  - 1930-talet
KW  - sao
KW  - sears
KW  - Great Depression, 1929-1939
KW  - 1918-1945
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 1933-1945
KW  - 1919-1933
KW  - USA
KW  - swd
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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