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Harvard Book Store Presents...
W W Norton & Co Inc
Price: $29.95
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MORRIS DICKSTEIN
explores
Dancing in the Dark:
A Cultural History of the Great Depression
Harvard Book Store is happy to welcome professor of English and Theatre MORRIS DICKSTEIN as he shows us Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression. In this timely and long-awaited cultural history of the 1930s, Morris Dickstein, whom Norman Mailer called “one of our best and most distinguished critics of American literature,” explores the anxiety and hope, the despair and surprising optimism of distressed Americans at a time of dire economic dislocation. Bringing together a staggering range of materials—from epic Dust Bowl migrations and sharecropper photographs to zany screwball comedies, wildly popular swing bands, and streamlined Deco designs—this eloquent work highlights the pivotal role of culture and government intervention in hard times. Exploding the myth that Depression culture was merely escapist, it concentrates instead on the dynamic energy and insight the arts could provide and the enormous lift they gave to the nation’s morale. Dancing in the Dark shows how our worst economic crisis, as it eroded American individualism and punctured the American dream, produced some of the greatest writing, photography, and mass entertainment ever seen in this country. "In this scholarly yet immensely readable study, Dickstein examines how the artistic culture of the '30s served a dual function. It helped people understand and cope with the terrible economic climate, and it allowed them to escape, for a while at least, the burden of dark times.... It's hard to imagine a more astute, more graceful guide to a remarkably creative period." —Kirkus Reviews
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617.661.1515
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617.661.1424 ex.1
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| DATE: |
Friday, October 23rd |
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3:00 PM |
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Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge |
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This event is free; no tickets are required |
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Morris Dickstein is a literary and cultural critic, and a Distinguished Professor of English and Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has written numerous books on American literary and cultural history, including Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties (which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism) and Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970. Over the years his essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Partisan Review, The American Scholar, The Nation, the Washington Post, and the Times Literary Supplement (UK).
Photo Credit: Nancy Crampton
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