Screen LibraryThis side of despair：how the movies and American life intersected during the Great Depression
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Madison [NJ] |
| Publication Dates: | c2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 247 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780838641293 (alk. paper) 0838641296 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | J997 |
| CLC: |
J997.12 J909.712 |
| Call Number: | J909.712/H251 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-234) and index. 1. Ducking prostitution -- 2. The war over World War I -- 3. Racial constructions of the thirties -- 4. U.S. foreign policy and shifting racial identity -- 5. Sexual politics and the depression -- 6. The arc of national confidence and the birth of film noir, 1929-41 -- 7. Escaping the thirties -- 8. The American contradiction |