The 1930s Arts and Entertainment: For More Information

BOOKS

Allen, Frederick Lewis. Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929–September 3, 1939. New York: HarperCollins, 1986.

Beaumont, Newhall. The History of Photography. Boston: Little, Brown, 1982.

Blackman, Cally. The 20s and 30s: Flappers and Vamps. Milwaukee, WI: Gareth Stevens, 2000.

Cowley, Malcolm. Think Back on Us—A Contemporary Chronicle of the 1930s. Southern Illinois University Press, 1967.

Feinstein, Stephen. The 1930s: From the Great Depression to the Wizard of Oz (Decades of the Twentieth Century). New York: Enslow Publishers, 2001.

Goulart, Ron. Comic Book Culture: An Illustrated History. Portland, OR: Collector's Press, 2000.

Gruber, J. Richard. Thomas Hart Benton and the American South. Augusta, GA: Morris Museum of Art, 1998.

Guthrie, Woody. Bound for Glory. New York: New American Library, 1995.

Manchel, Frank. The Talking Clowns: From Laurel and Hardy to the Marx Brothers. New York: Watts, 1976.

Mank, Gregory William. Women in Horror Films, 1930s. Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 1999.

Mazo, Joseph H. Prime Movers: The Makers of Modern Dance in America. New York: Morrow Quill Paperbacks, 1980.

Oermann, Robert K. A Century of Country: An Illustrated History of Country Music. New York: TV Books, 1999.

Park, Marlene. New Deal for Art: The Government Art Projects of the 1930s With Examples from New York City and State. New York: Gallery Association of New York State, 1977.

Press, Petra. The 1930s (Cultural History of the United States Through the Decades). San Diego: Lucent, 1999.

Schatz, Thomas. The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era. New York: Pantheon, 1988.

Shaw, Arnold. Let's Dance: Popular Music in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Smith, Wendy. Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre and America 1931–1940. New York: Knopf, 1990.

Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans: A History. New York: Norton, 1983.

Strubel, John Warthen. The History of American Classical Music. New York: Facts on File, 1995.

Swortzell, Lowell. Six Plays for Young People from the Federal Theatre Project (1936–1939). New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.

Weisberger, Bernard, A., ed. The WPA Guide to America: The Best of 1930s America as Seen by the Federal Writers Project. New York: Pantheon, 1985.

Wilson, Charles Reagan, and William Ferris, eds. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Wollstein, Hans J. Vixens, Floozies and Molls: 28 Actresses of Late 1920s and 1930s Hollywood. New York: McFarland, 1999.

WEB SITES

Dirks, Tim. "Greatest Films of the 1930s." Greatest Films. http://www.filmsite.org/30sintro.html (accessed July 23, 2002).

"Great Depression and World War II, 1929–1945: Art and Entertainment in the 1930s and 1940s." Library of Congress: American Memory Timeline. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/depwwii/art/art.html (accessed July 23, 2002).