American Modernism and Depression Documentary

Contents......Page 10
Introduction: Plausible Fictions of the Real......Page 14
1. From “Culture” to “Cultural Work”: Literature and Labor between the Wars......Page 38
2. The Road to Somewhere: Locating Knowledge in Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White’s: You Have Seen Their Faces (1937)......Page 70
3. Moving Violations: Stasis and Mobility in James Agee and Walker Evans’s: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)......Page 104
4. From Eye to We: Richard Wright’s 12 Million Black Voices (1941) , Documentary, and Pedagogy......Page 144
5. “We Americans”: Henry Luce, Life , and the Mind-Guided Camera......Page 178
Epilogue: Depression Documentary and the Knot of History......Page 210
Notes......Page 218
Works Cited......Page 256
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