American Culture in the 1930s
- ISBN-10
- 0748629777
- ISBN-13
- 9780748629770
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-10-07
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Author
- David Eldridge
Description
This book provides an insightful overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and a chapter on the role of the federal government in the development of the arts. The intellectual context of 1930s American culture is a strong feature, whilst case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade - from War of the Worlds to The Grapes of Wrath and from Edward Hopper to the Rockefeller Centre - help to explain the cultural impulses of radicalism, nationalism and escapism that characterize the United States in the 1930s.
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