Pages de Jean Kempf — Université Lumière - Lyon 2 — Département d'études du monde anglophone


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L3  — A HISTORY OF THE LONG 20th CENTURY (1890-present)


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    1. Turn of the century
      1. Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives ; Lewis Hine, reform photographer : powerpoint
      2. New York in 1911. (restored film)
      3. The Melting-Pot by Israel Zangwill
      4. Short films on US Presidents of the period
      5. Theodore Roosevelt on social and industrial justice, 1912 (original recording)
      6. The Model T
      7. Coney Island and a short silent film
      8. The life of a City. Early films of New York
      9. Short movie on the Lower East Side 1902
      10. Movies
        1. The Jazz Singer (1927 but about the immigrant identity. It was the first "talking" movie) : songs, trailer
        2. Hester Street (Life in NY City Lower East Side at the turn of the century)
        3. Life With Father (Life in a NY upper-middle-class family at the turn of the century)
        4. Ruggles of Red Gap  (One of the best movies on the American dream, excellent and very funny)
        5. The House of Mirth.
        6. The Age of Innocence.
    2. The 1920s
      1. Cartoons and Ads of the period
      2. Powerpoint with 1920s images
      3. An excellent series of short documentaries on all aspects of the 1920s, "History briefs, 1920s"
      4. Driving around NYC in the 1920s
      5. Music of the period
      6. The Scopes 'Monkey Trial' - July 10, 1925 - July 25, 1925, and documentary. HL Mencken's account.
      7. The Scopes Trial as viewed in Inherit the Wind (1960). Excerpt 1, Excerpt 2.
      8. Stormy Weather (1943) (This all black-musical focuses on the intersecting careers of a dancer and a singer, who met after World War I)
      9. Newsreel on topical issues.
      10. Fundamentalism : the statement of the World Conference on Christian Fundamentals (1919)
      11. Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village
      12. And all sorts of very interesting documents on this site (see menu)
      13. Good reads:
        1. HL Mencken, The Sahara of the Bozart (1920), The Libido for the Ugly (1927),
        2. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925). And the movie The Great Gatsby (1974)
        3. Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows (1925)
        4. Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (text)
        5. Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt (1922)
        6. Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life (1919)
        7. Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel (1929)
        8. John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer (1925)
      14. American Architecture (powerpoint)
    3. The 1930s
      1. Powerpoint with some pictures
      2. Readings notes on Making a New Deal. Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
      3. FDR's First Inauguration
      4. FDR's fireside chats
      5. Browse FSA photographs in the Library of Congress.
      6. A very interesting site with all sorts of documents on the 1930s
      7. Movies
        1. any Frank Capra movie for instance Mr Smith Goes to Washington or Meet John Doe
        2. The Wizard of Oz (1939 version!)
        3. Gone With the Wind (1939)
    4. The 1950s
      1. Powerpoint with 1950s images

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