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Author : Berenice Abbott
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780486318806
Nearly 100 classic images by noted photographer: Rockefeller Center on the rise, Bowery restaurants, dramatic views of the City's bridges, Washington Square, old movie houses, rows of old tenements, and many other landmarks.
Author : David Weaver
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604737653
The biography of a black operatic soprano who died too soon
Author : Berenice Abbott,Elizabeth McCausland
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1973-06
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076005638015
Ninety-seven photographs accompanied by descriptive notes capture New York City life in the depression years.
Author : Keith Williams,Steven Matthews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317886402
Rewriting the Thirties questions the myth of the 'anti-modernist' decade. Conversely, the editors argue it is a symptomatic, transitional phase between modern and post-modern writing and politics, at a time of cultural and technological change. The text reconsiders some of the leading writers of the period in the light of recent theoretical developments, through essays on the ambivalent assimilation of Modernist influences, among proletarian and canonical novelists including James Barke and George Orwell, and among poets including Auden, MacNeice, Swingler and Bunting, and in the work of feminist writers Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby. In this substantial remapping, the complexity and scope of literary-critical debate at the time is discussed in relation to theatrical innovation, audience attitudes to the mass medium of modernity - cinema - the poetics of suburbia, consumerism and national ideology, as well as the discursive strategies of British and American documentarism.
Author : Tom Tierney
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780486237152
Crawford, MacDonald, Lombard, Harlow, Garbo, Bennett, Garland, and Carroll with 38 authentic film costumes. 16 plates in full color.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1352 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : OSU:32435078789948
Author : Murray Kempton
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781590175446
Through brilliant portraits of real persons who created the myths and realities of the 1930s, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Murray Kempton brings that turbulent decade to life. Himself a child of the time, Kempton examines with the insight and imagination of a novelist the men and women who embraced, grappled with, and in many cases were destroyed by the myth of revolution. What he calls the “ruins and monuments of the Thirties” include Paul Robeson, Alger Hiss, and Whittaker Chambers, the Hollywood Ten, the rebel women Elizabeth Bentley and Mary Heaton Vorse, and the labor leaders Walter Reuther and Joe Curran.
Author : James Seaton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107026100
This book offers a history of literary criticism from Plato to the present, arguing that this history can best be seen as a dialogue among three traditions - the Platonic, Neoplatonic, and the humanistic, originated by Aristotle. There are many histories of literary criticism, but this is the first to clarify our understanding of the many seemingly incommensurable approaches employed over the centuries by reference to the three traditions. Making its case by careful analyses of individual critics, the book argues for the relevance of the humanistic tradition in the twenty-first century and beyond.
Author : Catherine L. Covert,John D. Stevens
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1984-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0815623070
Author : Alan Filreis
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469606637
During the Cold War an unlikely coalition of poets, editors, and politicians converged in an attempt to discredit--if not destroy--the American modernist avant-garde. Ideologically diverse yet willing to bespeak their hatred of modern poetry through the rhetoric of anticommunism, these "anticommunist antimodernists," as Alan Filreis dubs them, joined associations such as the League for Sanity in Poetry to decry the modernist "conspiracy" against form and language. In Counter-revolution of the Word Filreis narrates the story of this movement and assesses its effect on American poetry and poetics. Although the antimodernists expressed their disapproval through ideological language, their hatred of experimental poetry was ultimately not political but aesthetic, Filreis argues. By analyzing correspondence, decoding pseudonyms, drawing new connections through the archives, and conducting interviews, Filreis shows that an informal network of antimodernists was effective in suppressing or distorting the postwar careers of many poets whose work had appeared regularly in the 1930s. Insofar as modernism had consorted with radicalism in the Red Decade, antimodernists in the 1950s worked to sever those connections, fantasized a formal and unpolitical pre-Depression High Modern moment, and assiduously sought to de-radicalize the remnant avant-garde. Filreis's analysis provides new insight into why experimental poetry has aroused such fear and alarm among American conservatives.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Books
ISBN : UCR:31210024109694
Author : William H. Young,Nancy K. Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313088711
Everything from Amos n' Andy to zeppelins is included in this expansive two volume encyclopedia of popular culture during the Great Depression era. Two hundred entries explore the entertainments, amusements, and people of the United States during the difficult years of the 1930s. In spite of, or perhaps because of, such dire financial conditions, the worlds of art, fashion, film, literature, radio, music, sports, and theater pushed forward. Conditions of the times were often mirrored in the popular culture with songs such as Brother Can You Spare a Dime, breadlines and soup kitchens, homelessness, and prohibition and repeal. Icons of the era such as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George and Ira Gershwin, Jean Harlow, Billie Holiday, the Marx Brothers, Roy Rogers, Frank Sinatra, and Shirley Temple entertained many. Dracula, Gone With the Wind, It Happened One Night, and Superman distracted others from their daily worries. Fads and games - chain letters, jigsaw puzzles, marathon dancing, miniature golf, Monopoly - amused some, while musicians often sang the blues. Nancy and William Young have written a work ideal for college and high school students as well as general readers looking for an overview of the popular culture of the 1930s. Art deco, big bands, Bonnie and Clyde, the Chicago's World Fair, Walt Disney, Duke Ellington, five-and-dimes, the Grand Ole Opry, the jitter-bug, Lindbergh kidnapping, Little Orphan Annie, the Olympics, operettas, quiz shows, Seabiscuit, vaudeville, westerns, and Your Hit Parade are just a sampling of the vast range of entries in this work. Reference features include an introductory essay providing an historical and cultural overview of the period, bibliography, and index.
Author : Anthony Harkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199881918
In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly-in his various guises of "briar hopper," "brush ape," "ridge runner," and "white trash"-has been viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent degenerate who threatens the modern order and as a keeper of traditional values of family, home, and physical production, and thus symbolic of a nostalgic past free of the problems of contemporary life. "Hillbilly" signifies both rugged individualism and stubborn backwardness, strong family and kin networks but also inbreeding and bloody feuds. Spanning film, literature, and the entire expanse of American popular culture, from D. W. Griffith to hillbilly music to the Internet, Harkins illustrates how the image of the hillbilly has consistently served as both a marker of social derision and regional pride. He traces the corresponding changes in representations of the hillbilly from late-nineteenth century America, through the great Depression, the mass migrations of Southern Appalachians in the 1940s and 1950s, the War on Poverty in the mid 1960s, and to the present day. Harkins also argues that images of hillbillies have played a critical role in the construction of whiteness and modernity in twentieth century America. Richly illustrated with dozens of photographs, drawings, and film and television stills, this unique book stands as a testament to the enduring place of the hillbilly in the American imagination. Hillbilly received an Honorable Mention, John G. Cawelti Book Award of the American Culture Association.
Author : Jane Dowson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134790548
Where were the women of the so-called `Auden Generation'?During this era of rapidly changing gender roles,social values and world politics,women produced a rich variety of poetry.But until now their work has largely been lost or ignored;in Women's Poetry of the 1930s Jane Dowson finally redresses the balance and recovers women's place in the literary history of the interwar years.This comprehensive and beautifully edited collection includes: *Previously uncollected poems by authors such as Winifred Holtby and Naomi Mitchison *Poems which are now out of print,such as those by Vita Sackville-West and Frances Cornford *Poems previously neglected by poets including Ann Ridler and Sylvia Townsend Warner *An extensive critical introduction and individual biographies of each poet Poetry lovers,students and scholars alike will find Women's Poetry of the 1930s an invaluable resource and a collection to treasure.
Author : Vivyan Campbell Adair
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 0815336519
Through this exploration the connection between textual representation and social productions of the "Real" become startlingly apparent.".