Title: This side of despair
First published: 2008
Description: "This Side of Despair investigates the ways the most severe economic catastrophe in American history impacted America's mass art form, the movies. Drawing from the methods of historicist inquiry that have developed over the past two decades, and especially the New Historicism, this book looks closely at not just the film industry as a business enterprise, which has become the current vogue, but at the product of the art form itself: what appears on the screen. In ways that have not previously been ventured, this book explores the intimate relationship between film and the economic and political texts that unfolded throughout the Depression. What results is a statement on the connections between economics and art, and more specifically, between near economic calamity and a burgeoning new art form."--Jacket.
Subjects: History, Motion pictures, Political aspects, Political aspects of Motion pictures, Social aspects, Social aspects of Motion pictures, Motion pictures, history, Motion pictures, united states, Motion pictures, social aspects, Motion pictures, political aspects
Places: United States
LC classification: PN1993.5.U6 H343 2008