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American modernism and depression documentary
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American modernism and depression documentary / Jeff Allred.
ISBN
9780195335682 (hardback : alk. paper)
0195335686 (hardback : alk. paper)
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Physical Description
viii, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 03, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: plausible fictions of the real
From 'culture' to 'cultural work': literature and labor between the wars
The road to somewhere: locating knowledge in Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White's You have seen their faces (1937)
Moving violations: stasis and mobility in James Agee and Walker Evans's Let us now praise famous men (1941)
From eye to we: Richard Wright's 12 million black voices, documentary, and pedagogy
'We Americans': Henry Luce, life, and the mind-guided camera
Epilogue: depression documentary and the knot of history.
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