This side of despair : how the movies and American life intersected during the Great Depression / Ph...
This side of despair : how the movies and American life intersected during the Great Depression / Ph...
This side of despair : how the movies and American life intersected during the Great Depression / Philip Hanson.
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Madison [NJ] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2008.
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N791.43097/31
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English
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Physical content
247 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
1. Ducking Prostitution -- 2. The War over World War I -- 3. Racial Constructions of the Thirties -- 4. U.S. Foreign Policy and Shifting Racial Identity -- 5. Sexual Politics and the Depression -- 6. The Arc of National Confidence and the Birth of Film Noir, 1929-41 -- 7. Escaping the Thirties -- 8....
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Publisher
Madison [NJ] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2008.
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
c2008.
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Summary
"This Side of Despair investigates the ways the most severe economic catastrophe in American history impacted America's mass art form, the movies. Drawing from the methods of historicist inquiry that have developed over the past two decades, and especially the New Historicism, this book looks closely at not just the film industry as a business ente...
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This side of despair : how the movies and American life intersected during the Great Depression / Philip Hanson.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-234) and index.
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c2008.
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N791.43097/31
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74VMQk6G6N0d
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ISBN
9780838641293 (alk. paper)
0838641296 (alk. paper)
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791.43097309043
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991000553669702626
