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050	1	4	_aE 806 _b.D57 2010
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100	1		_aDickstein, Morris.
245	1	0	_aDancing in the dark : _ba cultural history of the Great Depression / _cMorris Dickstein.
250			_aNorton pbk.
260			_aNew York : _bW.W. Norton, _c2010.
263			_a201009
300			_axxiii, 598 p. : _bill. ; _c21 cm.
500			_aOriginally published: 2009.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [556]-564) and index.
505	0		_a1. Introduction: Depression culture -- pt. 1. Discovering poverty. 2. The tenement and the world : immigrant lives -- 3. The starvation army -- 4. The country and the city -- 5. Hard times for poets -- 6. Black girls and native sons -- pt. 2. Success and failure. 7. Beyond the American dream -- 8. What price Hollywood? -- 9. The last film of the 1930s, or, Nothing fails like success -- pt. 3. The culture of elegance. 10. Fantasy, elegance, mobility : the dream life of the 1930s -- 11. Class for the masses : elegance democratized -- pt. 4. The search for community. 12. The populist turn : Copland and the popular front -- 13. Who cares? : the world of Porgy and Bess -- 14. The People vs. Frank Capra : populism against itself -- 15. Shakespeare in overalls : an American troubadour -- 16. Gender trouble : exposing the intellectuals -- 17. 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		0	_aPopular culture _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aDepressions _y1929 _zUnited States.
651		0	_aUnited States _xCivilization _y1918-1945.
651		0	_aUnited States _xIntellectual life _y20th century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xSocial life and customs _y1918-1945.
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _y1933-1945.
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _y1919-1933.
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