Critics emphasize the European origins of Lawson's 1920s plays—expressionism, Marxism; in reading (1928), I make Lawson's use of modern American popular culture (jazz, tabloids, vaudeville, film) their defining feature, arguing for their interpretation as an American avant-garde current within ...
Popular culture Theriseofpopularculture Americanpopularcultureemergedintheearly20thcentury.ItisresultedfromtheAmericanmodernization,industrialization,urbanizationandmarketization. 1.Theincreaseofsocialwealthandtheriseofleisurelife Afterthe1920s,themanufacturingsectoroccupiesamajorpositionintheU.S.economy.The...
The intention of the Act was to boost the British film industry; its unintended consequence was that American studios set up cheap studio contracts in Britain and started churning out low-quality films which became known as ‘quota quickies’.[1] Shortly after the Act was passed, Britain ...
The intention of the Act was to boost the British film industry; its unintended consequence was that American studios set up cheap studio contracts in Britain and started churning out low-quality films which became known as ‘quota quickies’.[1] Shortly after the Act was passed, Britain ...
The 1920s and 1930s Voodoo Craze: African Survivals in American Popular Culture and the Ivory TowerAfrican Survivals in American Popular Culture and the Iv... This chapter explores the 1920s and 1930s "voodoo craze" by examing the way that negative ideas about "Africa" and "Africans" during...
A political coalition of leftist parties against fascism, such as that formed among European countries during the 1930s. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publ...
It quickly grew in favor among American teens, thanks largely to the efforts of disc jockey Alan Freed, who named and popularized the music by playing it on the radio in Cleveland, where he also organized the first rock and roll concert, and later in New York. The theme of rebellion ...
Urban life in the United States underwent a dramatic transformation toward the middle of the twentieth century. To the extent that one can think of the history of the American city as a series of successive but overlapping paradigms, the 1930s marked the
M. 2004. American Dreams of Mutants: The X-Men – ‚Pulp’ ... JM Trushell - 《Journal of Popular Culture》 被引量: 13发表: 2004年 Prove It on Me: New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920s pulp fictiontranslationvernacularRead the full-text online edition of Prove It on...
RayB.Browne,aleadingscholarofAmericanstudies,said"Popularcultureisthewayoflifeinwhichandbywhichmostpeopleinanysocietylive.InademocracyliketheUnitedStates,itisthevoiceofthepeople."·Fashion·Theater·Filmandtelevision·Music·Dance Apartfromprofessionalbusinessattire,fashionintheUnitedStatesiseclecticandpredominantly...