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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression - GOOD
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- Unbranded
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- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780393072259
- Book Title
- Dancing in the Dark : a Cultural History of the Great Depression
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.7 in
- Genre
- Business & Economics, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Economic History, United States / 20th Century, Popular Culture, Customs & Traditions, United States / General
- Item Width
- 6.7 in
- Item Weight
- 35.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 576 Pages
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Finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism: from Agee to Astaire, Steinbeck to Ellington, the creative energies of the Depression against a backdrop of poverty and economic disaster.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393072258
ISBN-13
9780393072259
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72665319
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dancing in the Dark : a Cultural History of the Great Depression
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Economic History, United States / 20th Century, Popular Culture, Customs & Traditions, United States / General
Publication Year
2009
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Business & Economics, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Height
1.7 in
Item Width
6.7 in
Item Weight
35.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
E806.D57 2009
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"Dancing in the Dark is a book best read slowly, perhaps with a DVD player or YouTube close at hand, so that when Dickstein invokes Fred Astaire's "refusal to dance, and the very dance in which he acts this out" in Swing Time, you can see exactly what he means.... [a]s we again find ourselves whistling past the big, bad wolf of economic hard times, Dickstein reminds us of how much we owe the culture that taught all of us how to face the music and dance.", [A] judiciously researched, persuasively argued, elegant analysis of Depression culture.... Dickstein is...exhaustive without being exhausting, and his book is a commendable compression of a complex decade., A collection of thoughtfully linked essays on relatively few but exemplary works and their creators--novels, poems, plays, movies, art (both high and decorative) and music (both popular and classical) that defined the period between the Crash of 1929 and America's entrance into World War II. These admirably written pieces are marked by a generosity of spirit that never deteriorates into the quarrelsome or the niggardly, even when Dickstein does not fully endorse the objects he's discussing....Dickstein is terrific on all kinds of expression., [A] bighearted, rambling new survey of American culture in the nineteen-thirties.... Dickstein...values the popular culture of the Depression, and writes with enthusiasm about Cole Porter's wit, George Gershwin's jazz cadences, and the racing stripes and shiny surfaces of Art Deco., Starred Review. Dickstein's fluent, erudite, intriguing meditations turn up many resonances, comparing, for example, the Nazi propaganda film Triumph of the Will to Busby Berkeley musicals and Gone with the Wind to gangster films....The result is a fascinating portrait of a distant era that still speaks compellingly to our own., Starred Review. His scintillating commentary illuminates an important dimension of a decade too often considered only in political or economic terms....It's hard to imagine a more astute, more graceful guide to a remarkably creative period., A tour de force of '30s culture, high and low. The writing is never less than scintillating, the interpretations bold and incisive, the range encyclopedic.... As timely and readable a book as any that will be published this year., A significant historical work. A wonderful cultural historian, Morris Dickstein has written a book that lends testimony to the perseverance of the nation at that time., Dickstein looks beyond the mainstream to the nation's minorities, whose powerlessness made economichardships even harder to bear, and he details the contributions of African Americans and immigrant Jews to American culture. Parallels to contemporary economic conditions mark this as an exceptionally relevant book., Morris Dickstein achieves something so remarkable with Dancing in the Dark that it hovers close to the miraculous: He almost makes you wish you'd been living in America during the 1930s., What will they be writing about our cultural endeavors 70 years from now? That's the question that keeps coming up when you read Dancing in the Dark, Morris Dickstein's fascinating examination of how the Great Depression influenced art, music, and literature., [A] smart, ambitious piece of work, the product of prodigious research and careful thought, and those who read it will come away with a clearer understanding of an important but widely misunderstood period in the country's cultural life.
Copyright Date
2009
Lccn
2009-017389
Dewey Decimal
973.91
Dewey Edition
22
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