| Pages de Jean Kempf
— Université
Lumière - Lyon 2 —
Département d'études du monde anglophone
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| M1 — US Art and Culture in the 1930s |
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1930s in the United States cannot be simply reduced to the New Deal,
although its politics /policies-- and particularly its cultural
policies defined it to a great extent. This course aims at charting the
period from the Wall Street Crash in 1929 to the beginning of the war
in Europe (the US only became a belligerent per se in 1941). This class has an usual format: it will be taught as a joint seminar with American studies students from the University of Wyoming. Our weekly session will be divided in two parts: a common visioconference with Wyoming and then a in-class session in Lyon. As this is a Master's seminar, you will be asked to do weekly readings. Every week, documents will be posted on Moodle and students will be expected to be able to present and discuss the readings. I will then wrap up the session by synthesizing the discussions and offering a comprehensive perspective on the topic. Examen
Jan 27: General introduction: to the class. The Great Depression and the New Deal
Feb 3: Public support for the arts. Feb 10: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans Feb 17: March 3: Berenice Abbott and the American documentary (lecture by Prof. Eric Sandeen) March 10: Painting: American Scene and Regionalism March 17: March 24: Small town America March 31: Black America April 7: April 14: 1930s architecture April 21: Popular culture (Movies / Hollywood, Music, radio, Comics) |
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