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Depression –Era Culture

Depression –Era Culture. Chapter 24 Section V Notes 6.0. Objectives…. Summarize how American culture in the 1930s was shaped by the Great Depression…. How did the New Deal help the Arts?. 1935 – WPA $300 million for unemployed in: writing, theatre, music, and visual arts

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Depression –Era Culture

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  1. Depression –Era Culture Chapter 24 Section V Notes 6.0

  2. Objectives… • Summarize how American culture in the 1930s was shaped by the Great Depression…

  3. How did the New Deal help the Arts? • 1935 – WPA $300 million for unemployed in: writing, theatre, music, and visual arts • Innovative/successful • Provided work for artists • Legacy of artistic and cultural production

  4. What was the documentary impulse? • Document devastation of depression • Depicted people’s struggles to cope and survive • Some consciously linked to political action • Recording vanishing ways of life • Evidence of human suffering and social problems

  5. The Arts in Depression America • Federal Art Project was part of the WPA • Artists were paid to promote positive images of American life (100,000 paintings) • Murals, posters, and art education flourished • Mexican Muralist – Diego Rivera inspired these artists

  6. New Deal Mural

  7. American Painters • Edward Hopper • Thomas Hart Benton • Grant Wood

  8. Hopper

  9. Benton

  10. Grant Wood

  11. American Gothic

  12. Federal Theater Project • Playwrights/Actors and Directors • Launched careers of: • Burt Lancaster • Arthur Miller • John Houseman • Orsen wells

  13. Federal Writers Project • Paid more than 6,000 writers • Richard Wright – Native Son ( 1940) • Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes Are Watching God ( 1937) • Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

  14. Novels • Themes of pain and suffering v. faith to overcome disaster • John Steinbeck – Grapes of Wrath • Margaret Mitchell – Gone With the Wind

  15. Depression Singers • Woody Guthrie • Used music to capture the hardship of America • Fled the Dust Bowl • Federal Music Project – Preserved Folk music

  16. Photography • Roy Stryker – head of Historical Section of Resettlement Administration • Most significant visual record of New Deal • Images of despair and hope

  17. Photo by: Dorothea Lange – Photographer for the Resettlement Administration

  18. Lange

  19. Lange Lange

  20. Waiting for Lefty? • Communist party membership – 100,000 • Strong leftist influence in social thought and writing • Concern in 1930s about disparity between rich and poor • Writers joined C.P. – saw it as an alternative • “Popular Front” – liberals, socialists, and communists united against rise of fascism • Supported the New Deal

  21. What types of movies were popular during the 1930s? • Gangster films – violent criminals brought to justice • Marx Brothers – social disorder • Song and dance extravaganzas • Socially conscious movies – questioning • Moral tales – keep order and follow rules

  22. Gone With the Wind

  23. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

  24. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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