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Book SynopsisA clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade.
Trade ReviewVivid, wide-ranging and original, David Eldridge is a perceptive guide, conducting his readers through the maze of American culture in the 1930s. This is a book to inspire students, inform general readers and challenge scholars to generate further research. -- Nicholas J. Cull, Director of the Public Diplomacy Program, University of Southern California Each chapter handles a different form of 1930s expression with a sure and light touch, and Eldridge's synchronic approach matches the multifarious ethos of the era very well. -- Catherine Gander, University of East Anglia Journal of American Studies This particular volume will be of interest to historians of American culture who are not specialists in the interwar period, and it would also be a good book for instructors to consider using in undergraduate courses on the period. The book contains detailed timelines of various cultural developments in the 1930s as well as a thorough and well-chosen bibliography, features that add to a solid synthetic cultural history of the 1930s. -- Michael Stamm, Michigan State university American Journalism Vivid, wide-ranging and original, David Eldridge is a perceptive guide, conducting his readers through the maze of American culture in the 1930s. This is a book to inspire students, inform general readers and challenge scholars to generate further research. Each chapter handles a different form of 1930s expression with a sure and light touch, and Eldridge's synchronic approach matches the multifarious ethos of the era very well. This particular volume will be of interest to historians of American culture who are not specialists in the interwar period, and it would also be a good book for instructors to consider using in undergraduate courses on the period. The book contains detailed timelines of various cultural developments in the 1930s as well as a thorough and well-chosen bibliography, features that add to a solid synthetic cultural history of the 1930s.
Table of ContentsList of Figures; List of Case Studies; Acknowledgements; Chronology of 1930s American Culture; Introduction: The Intellectual Context; 1. Literature and Drama; 2. Film and Photography; 3. Music and Radio; 4. Art and Design; 5. New Deal Culture; Conclusion: The Cultural Legacy of the 1930s; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
