Documentary Expression and Thirties America
Documentary Expression and Thirties America

Author: William Stott

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1986-06-15

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780226775593

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"A comprehensive inquiry into the attitudes and ambitions that characterized the documentary impulse of the thirties. The subject is a large one, for it embraces (among much else) radical journalism, academic sociology, the esthetics of photography, Government relief programs, radio broadcasting, the literature of social work, the rhetoric of political persuasion, and the effect of all these on the traditional arts of literature, painting, theater and dance. The great merit of Mr. Stott's study lies precisely in its wide-ranging view of this complex terrain."—Hilton Kramer, New York Times Book Review "[Scott] might be called the Aristotle of documentary. No one before him has so comprehensively surveyed the achievement of the 1930s, suggesting what should be admired, what condemned, and why; no one else has so persuasively furnished an aesthetic for judging the form."—Times Literary Supplement

Diane Arbus's 1960s
Diane Arbus's 1960s

Author: Frederick Gross

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0816670110

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Monografie over het werk van de Amerikaanse fotografe (1923-1971) en hoe zich dit verhoudt tot andere kunstzinige en maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen in de zestiger jaren van de twintigste eeuw.

The Cambridge History of American Modernism
The Cambridge History of American Modernism

Author: Mark Whalan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-06-30

Total Pages: 948

ISBN-13: 1108808026

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The Cambridge History of American Modernism examines one of the most innovative periods of American literary history. It offers a comprehensive account of the forms, genres, and media that characterized US modernism: coverage ranges from the traditional, such as short stories, novels, and poetry, to the new media that shaped the period's literary culture, such as jazz, cinema, the skyscraper, and radio. This volume charts how recent methodologies such as ecocriticism, geomodernism, and print culture studies have refashioned understandings of the field, and attends to the contestations and inequities of race, sovereignty, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity that shaped the period and its cultural production. It also explores the geographies and communities wherein US modernism flourished-from its distinctive regions to its metropolitan cities, from its hemispheric connections to the salons and political groupings that hosted new cultural collaborations.

Documenting America, 1935-1943
Documenting America, 1935-1943

Author: Lawrence W. Levine

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9780520062207

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Photographs by a team of photographers who traveled across the United States documenting America's experience of the Great Depression and World War II.

The Muse in Bronzeville
The Muse in Bronzeville

Author: Robert Bone

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2011-08-27

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 0813550734

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The Muse in Bronzeville, a dynamic reappraisal of a neglected period in African American cultural history, is the first comprehensive critical study of the creative awakening that occurred on Chicago's South Side from the early 1930s to the cold war. Coming of age during the hard Depression years and in the wake of the Great Migration, this generation of Black creative artists produced works of literature, music, and visual art fully comparable in distinction and scope to the achievements of the Harlem Renaissance. This highly informative and accessible work, enhanced with reproductions of paintings of the same period, examines Black Chicago's "Renaissance" through richly anecdotal profiles of such figures as Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Walker, Charles White, Gordon Parks, Horace Cayton, Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson, and Katherine Dunham. Robert Bone and Richard A. Courage make a powerful case for moving Chicago's Bronzeville, long overshadowed by New York's Harlem, from a peripheral to a central position within African American and American studies.

The World Reimagined
The World Reimagined

Author: Mark Bradley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-09-12

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0521829755

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This book uncovers how human rights gained meaning and power for Americans in the 1940s, the 1970s and today.

Documenting the Documentary
Documenting the Documentary

Author: Barry Keith Grant

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 0814339727

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Documenting the Documentary offers clear, serious, and insightful analyses of documentary films, and is a welcome balance between theory and criticism, abstract conceptualization and concrete analysis.