American Modernism and Depression Documentary

Zusatztext American Modernism and Depression Documentary is a stirring investigation of the 'aesthetics of interruption' of 1930s-era documentary books. In sparkling, incisive, and lapidary prose, Jeff Allred luminously navigates the fissure between modernism and documentary forms, eloquently accentuating the tension between the photographic image and the surrounding text in the framework of the politics and culture of the Great Depression. Informationen zum Autor Jeff Allred is Associate Professor of English at Hunter College at the City University of New York. Klappentext American Modernism and Depression Documentary examines literary modernism in the U.S. through the lens of the Depression-era "documentary book," a hybrid genre that experiments with novel ways of combining photographic images with textual narratives. It thereby demonstrates often-neglected affinities between 1930s documentary expression and the broader tradition of interwar modernist art. Zusammenfassung American Modernism and Depression Documentary examines literary modernism in the U.S. through the lens of the Depression-era "documentary book," a hybrid genre that experiments with novel ways of combining photographic images with textual narratives. It thereby demonstrates often-neglected affinities between 1930s documentary expression and the broader tradition of interwar modernist art. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Plausible Fictions of the Real Chapter One: From "Culture " to "Cultural Work ": Literature and Labor Between the Wars Chapter Two: The Road to Somewhere: Locating Knowledge in Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White's You Have Seen Their Faces (1937) Chapter Three: Moving Violations: Stasis and Mobility in James Agee's and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) Chapter Four: From Eye to We: Richard Wright's 12 Million Black Voices, Documentary, and Pedagogy Chapter Five: "We Americans ": Henry Luce, Life, and the Mind-Guided Camera Epilogue: Depression Documentary and the Knot of History Works Cited Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Allred
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9780199938544
• ISBN: 978-0-19-993854-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, English, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / Photojournalism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Reportage & collected journalism, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, History of the Americas, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Photographic reportage, Photojournalism and documentary photography