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American modernism and depression documentary / Jeff Allred.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allred, Jeff, 1972- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987. You have seen their faces.
- Caldwell, Erskine.
- Agee, James, 1909-1955. Let us now praise famous men.
- Agee, James.
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. 12 million black voices.
- Wright, Richard.
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Documentary photography--United States--History--20th century.
- Documentary photography.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Literature and photography--United States--History--20th century.
- Literature and photography.
- Photography--Political aspects--United States.
- Photography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Plausible fictions of the real
- From 'culture' to 'cultural work': literature and labor between the wars
- The road to somewhere: locating knowledge in Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White's You have seen their faces (1937)
- Moving violations: stasis and mobility in James Agee's and Walker Evans's Let us now praise famous men (1941)
- From eye to we: Richard Wright's 12 million black voices, documentary, and pedagogy
- 'We Americans': Henry Luce, life, and the mind-guided camera
- Epilogue: depression documentary and the knot of history.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-257) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772306-3
- 1-282-32874-3
- 9786612328749
- 0-19-971476-2
- OCLC:
- 536239333
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