American Modernism and Depression Documentary

by Jeff Allred

Book Overview

American Modernism and Depression Documentary surveys the uneven terrain of American modernity through the lens of the documentary book. Jeff Allred argues that photo-texts of the 1930s stage a set of mediations between rural hinterlands and metropolitan areas, between elite producers of culture and the "forgotten man" of Depression-era culture, between a myth of consensual national unity and various competing ethnic and regional collectivities. In...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199938547
• ISBN13: 9780199938544
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"