TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allred,Jeff
TI  - American modernism and depression documentary
SN  - 9780195335682 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - PS228.P48 A45 2010
U1  - 820.9356 A J A 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Caldwell, Erskine,
KW  - Agee, James,
KW  - Wright, Richard,
KW  - American literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Documentary photography
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Literature and photography
KW  - Photography
KW  - Political aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-257) and index; Introduction: Plausible fictions of the real -- From 'culture' to 'cultural work': literature and labor between the wars -- The road to somewhere: locating knowledge in Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White's You have seen their faces (1937) -- Moving violations: stasis and mobility in James Agee's and Walker Evans's Let us now praise famous men (1941) -- From eye to we: Richard Wright's 12 million black voices, documentary, and pedagogy -- 'We Americans': Henry Luce, life, and the mind-guided camera -- Epilogue: depression documentary and the knot of history
ER  -