Dancing in the dark : a cultural history of the Great Depression / Morris Dickstein.
Dickstein, Morris.
2009
E806 .D57 2009 (Mapit)
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Title
Dancing in the dark : a cultural history of the Great Depression / Morris Dickstein.
Author
Dickstein, Morris.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780393072259
0393072258
Publication Details
New York : W.W. Norton, c2009.
Language
English
Description
xxiii, 598 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
E806 .D57 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.91
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 and index.
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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. II. Success and failure. Beyond the American dream
What price Hollywood?
The last film of the 1930s, or, Nothing fails like success
pt. III. The culture of elegance. Fantasy, elegance, mobility : the dream life of the 1930s
Class for the masses : elegance democratized
pt. IV. 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.

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