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050	0	0	_aE806 _b.D57 2009
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100	1		_aDickstein, Morris
245	1	0	_aDancing in the dark _b: a cultural history of the Great Depression _c/ Morris Dickstein
250			_a1st ed
260			_aNew York _b: W.W. Norton _c, c2009.
300			_axxiii, 598 p. _b: ill. _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [533]-564) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Depression culture -- pt. 1. Discovering poverty. The tenement and the world : immigrant lives -- The starvation army -- The country and the city -- Hard times for poets -- Black girls and native sons -- pt. II. Success and failure. Beyond the American dream -- What price Hollywood? -- The last film of the 1930s, or, Nothing fails like success -- pt. III. The culture of elegance. Fantasy, elegance, mobility : the dream life of the 1930s -- Class for the masses : elegance democratized -- pt. IV. The search for community. The populist turn : Copland and the popular front -- Who cares? : the world of Porgy and Bess -- The People vs. Frank Capra : populism against itself -- Shakespeare in overalls : an American troubadour -- Gender trouble : exposing the intellectuals -- Conclusion : the work of culture in Depression America.
520			_aDancing in the Dark shows how our worst economic crisis, as it eroded American individualism and punctured the American dream, produced in the 1930s some of the greatest writing, photography, and mass entertainment ever seen in this country.
650		4	_aPopular culture _x-History _y-20th century
650		0	_aDepression _x--1929 _z--United States
651			_aUnited States _x-Civilization _y-20th century
651		0	_aUnited States _x--Intellectual life -- 20th century
651		0	_aUnited States _x--Social life and customs _y--20th century
651		0	_aUnited States _x--History _z--1919-1945
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