Author: Richard Dyer MacCann
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Keywords: 1920s, films
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1996-12-26
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0810832569
ISBN-13: 9780810832565
Contains essays and articles from seventeen noted film studies experts, including Lewis Jacobs, Tom Milne, John Tibbetts, Gaylord Carter, Robert and Helen Merrell Lynd, and Anthony Slide. Chapters provide the reader with a well-rounded view of the societal influences that inspired the films and the techniques that directors, filmmakers, and actors used to portray the world around them. Appendixes list studio activity in the 20s, give listings of the titles and directors noted in all five volumes of the series, and provide annotations for each film.
Author: David Ayers
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: 1920s, literature, english
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2004-11-30
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 0748620257
ISBN-13: 9780748620258
Focusing principally on the novel, Ayers sets modernist works alongside non-modernist and popular forms and explores the engagement of these texts with social concerns.
Author: Gregg M. Turner
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Keywords: america, images, 1920s, venice
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2000-05-28
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738505676
ISBN-13: 9780738505671
Author: Arnold Shaw
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: 1920s, music, popular, jazz
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1989-11-30
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0195060822
ISBN-13: 9780195060829
F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong launched it, Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, and now Arnold Shaw chronicles this fabulous era in his marvelously engrossing book, appropriately called The Jazz Age. Enriching his account with lively anecdotes and inside stories, he describes the astonishing outpouring of significant musical innovations that emerged during the "Roaring Twenties"--including blues, jazz, band music, torch ballads, operettas, and musicals--and sets them against the background of the Prohibition world of the Flapper and the Gangster. The Jazz Age o
Author: Otto Friedrich
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: 1920s, berlin, portrait, deluge
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1995-11-22
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0060926791
ISBN-13: 9780060926793
A fascinating portrait of the turbulent political, social, and cultural life of the city of Berlin in the 1920s.
Author: Radclyffe Hall
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: fiction, lesbian, classic, 1920s, loneliness
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1990-10-18
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0385416091
ISBN-13: 9780385416092
First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall’s own life, it was banned outright upon publication and almost ruined her literary career.
Author: Frederick Lewis Allen
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Keywords: 1920s, history, informal, yesterday
Number of Pages: 338
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0060956658
ISBN-13: 9780060956653
Prohibition. Al Capone. The President Harding scandals. The revolution of manners and morals. Black Tuesday. These are only an inkling of the events and figures characterizing the wild, tumultuous era that was the Roaring Twenties. Originally published in 1931, Only Yesterday traces the rise if post-World War I prosperity up to the Wall Street crash of 1929 against the colorful backdrop of flappers, speakeasies, the first radio, and the scandalous rise of skirt hemlines. Hailed as an instant classic, this is Frederick Lewis Allen’s vivid and definitive account of one of the twentiet
