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Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression
David Welky
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Description for Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression
Paperback. American mass culture's conservative response to the Great Depression and the coming of World War II Series: The History of Communication. Num Pages: 280 pages, 19 photographs. BIC Classification: GTC; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 454.
As a counterpart to research on the 1930s that has focused on liberal and radical writers calling for social revolution, David Welky offers this eloquent study of how mainstream print 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. He presents lively discussions of such topics as ... Read more
As a counterpart to research on the 1930s that has focused on liberal and radical writers calling for social revolution, David Welky offers this eloquent study of how mainstream print 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. He presents lively discussions of such topics as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
The History of Communication
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252075049
SKU
V9780252075049
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About David Welky
David Welky is a professor of history at the University of Central Arkansas. His books include A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier.
Reviews for Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression
“A welcome addition to the history of twentieth-century print culture, one that teachers and students of American studies will find useful and thought-provoking.”
Journal of American Studies “A launching pad for students’ own exploration of values projected by mass media both today and in the past.”
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly "General readers will find the discussion of topics such as Superman, ... Read more
Journal of American Studies “A launching pad for students’ own exploration of values projected by mass media both today and in the past.”
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly "General readers will find the discussion of topics such as Superman, ... Read more