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This interdisciplinary study blends textual analysis with social history to chart the intellectual and artistic ferment of Depression-era America. In Rousing the Nation, Laura Browder explores the fiction, drama, and film produced during the decade by socially conscious intellectuals who struggled to create a uniquely American art.
Browder first considers authors James T. Farrell, Josephine Herbst, and John Dos Passos, arguing that their work successfully sparked a discussion about what it meant to be American at a time when the country's very future seemed in doubt. She then examines the Living Newspaper productions of the Federal Theatre Project, which brought politically and aesthetically provocative drama to twenty-five million Americans.
In a final chapter, she examines social films of the period, focusing on Paramount's 1939 production of One-Third of a Nation.
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American literature, Depressions, Depressions in literature, History, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Literature and society, Modernism (Literature), Motion pictures, Radicalism in literature, Social problems in literature, Culture in motion pictures, United states, history, 1919-1933, United states, history, 1933-1945, Littérature américaine, Histoire et critique, Radicalisme dans la littérature, Littérature et société, Histoire, Cinéma, Modernisme (Littérature), Crises économiques, Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature, Vie intellectuelle, Crises économiques dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General, English, Languages & LiteraturesPlaces
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Rousing the nation: radical culture in Depression America
1998, University of Massachusetts Press
in English
1558491252 9781558491250
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-205) and index.
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