Jani Scandura

Down in the Dumps

Place, Modernity, American Depression

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A cultural studies account of America during the 1930s as seen through Key West, Harlem, Hollywood, and Reno.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 187mm x 262mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1012g
• ISBN-13: 9780822336549
• ISBN-10: 0822336545
• Artikelnr.: 22878686

Autorenporträt

Jani Scandura

Inhaltsangabe

Images ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: A Geography of Depression 1
1. Reno: The Divorce Factory 30
2. Key West: The Nation and the Corpse 70
3. Harlem: Blue-Penciled Place 122
4. Hollywood(land): Wax, Fire, Insomnia 186
Afterword: The Prison and the Pentagon 234
Notes 247
Works Cited 285
Index 303