American Culture in the 1930s

David Eldridge is Director of American Studies at the University of Hull. He specialises in the history of American culture and is the author of Hollywood’s History Films (I.B. Tauris, 2006).

• List of Figures; List of Case Studies; Acknowledgements; Chronology of 1930s American Culture; Introduction: The Intellectual Context; 1. Literature and Drama; 2. Film and Photography; 3. Music and Radio; 4. Art and Design; 5. New Deal Culture; Conclusion: The Cultural Legacy of the 1930s; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

This particular volume will be of interest to historians of American culture who are not specialists in the interwar period, and it would also be a good book for instructors to consider using in undergraduate courses on the period. The book contains detailed timelines of various cultural developments in the 1930s as well as a thorough and well-chosen bibliography, features that add to a solid synthetic cultural history of the 1930s.