Everything was better in America : print culture in the Great Depression /

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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 value...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Welky, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
Colección:History of communication.
Temas:
Silvana Editoriale
1900-1999
American newspapers > History > 20th century.
American periodicals > History > 20th century.
Publishers and publishing > United States > History > 20th century.
Journaux américains > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Périodiques américains > Histoire > 20e siècle.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Journalism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
American newspapers
American periodicals
Publishers and publishing
Buchmarkt
Zeitung
Zeitschrift
United States
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: "A time not to rock the boat"
  • Part One: Newspapers
  • The Press encounters the New Deal
  • Kidnapping America's child
  • Olympic feats of Americanism
  • The Gumps: America's comic-strip family
  • Part Two: 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
  • Part Three: 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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