Title:
Everything was better in America : print culture in the Great Depression / David Welky.
Author:
Welky, David.
Publication Information:
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2008.
Call Number:
PN4867 .W45 2008
Abstract:
As a counterpart to research on the 1930s that has focused on liberal and radical writers calling for social revolution, Welky offers this study of how mainstream culture shaped and disseminated a message affirming conservative middle-class values and assuring its readers that holding to these values would get them through hard times. Through analysis of the era's most popular newspaper stories, magazines, and books, Welky examines how voices both outside and within the media debated the purposes of literature and the meaning of cultural literacy in a mass democracy.
Electronic Access:
InhaltsverzeichnisTable of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0804/2007044086.html
ISBN:
9780252032998
9780252075049
Series:
The history of communication
History of communication.
Physical Description:
x, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: "A time not to rock the boat" -- pt. 1. Newspapers -- The Press encounters the New Deal -- Kidnapping America's child -- Olympic feats of Americanism -- The Gumps: America's comic-strip family -- pt. 2. Magazines -- How to slant a magazine -- Life, the war, and everything -- Defining womanhood in the Ladies' Home Journal -- Patriot number one, the man of steel -- pt. 3. Books -- Mainstreaming the book industry -- Finding security in best sellers -- Ellery Queen restores order -- Gone with the wind, but not forgotten -- Conclusion: "Everything was better in America."
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