HIS 356K Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Federal Art Project, Edward Everett Hale, Federal Theatre Project
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Federal arts and cultural democracy: the federal theater project. Emphasis on farm crisis because farm life is representative of america as a whole. Aaa 1933 - 1936: subsidies fro not planting and destroying. Resettlement admisnistraion (rexford tugwell) > fsa (loans, model dettlememts, camps, controls a nd information division) Photographers: arthur rotstein, dorthea lange, maron post walcott, Expose suffering: direct experience, non-ideological but goal=action. Cultural democracy precedents and 1930s context: will rogers: down-home populism. Three little pigs (1932) it"s your fault but you can kick this thing. Says problem isn"t prohibition or whatever, it"s that we"re not working. Brother can you spare a dime all in this together. Scarface (1932): gangster allure: were very popular. The gangster gave a sense of figuring out ways of getting around the system. Clark kent alter ego was caricature of frustrated, impotent mass man: hero for modern age. Super powers needed to solve problems of the day.
