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Rousing the nation : radical culture in Depression America

Author: Laura Browder
Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1998.
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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  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Browder, Laura, 1963-
Rousing the nation.
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1998
(OCoLC)605451794
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Laura Browder
ISBN: 1558491252 9781558491250
OCLC Number: 37426357
Description: viii, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: From Uncle Tom's cabin to Gone with the wind : writing for a nation in crisis --
The road : in search of America --
Dos Passos issues a challenge : can language make a revolution? --
Boys will be boys : Farrell examines working-class manhood --
Family history and political identity in Herbst's Trexler trilogy --
Finding a collective solution : the living newspaper experiment --
One-third of a nation : the living newspaper comes to Hollywood --
The search abandoned.
Responsibility: Laura Browder.

Abstract:

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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