HIST 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The New York Times, The Saturday Evening Post, Hooverville
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2: showed themselves off, consumer culture, the midway-working class, side show area, ferris wheels, jugglers, exotic shops. Section 3: walt disney emerges in this mass entertainment era. Key facts: dis(cid:374)ey"s rise (cid:449)as (cid:272)losely (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)ted to the e(cid:373)erge(cid:374)(cid:272)e of (cid:373)ass culture, mikey mouse becomes huge movie star that disney creates. 5: the depression: disney and sentimental populism, economic disaster, cultural response, disney and the little guy. Great depression/economic disaster: millions of people lose jobs, bankruptcy, the greatest crisis in am. Backed program to assist older people: fairly conservative response, safe modern industrial capitalism instead of getting rid of it, create opportunity for people to head back to work, traditional politics and reform. Cultural response: ordinary americans channeled unhappiness inward, sense of shame, clearly a product of the traditio(cid:374) of the (cid:862)self-(cid:373)ade (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:863, americans turn to tradition, tur(cid:374) to the (cid:862)a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:374) folk(cid:863, became shorthand term for god loving, hard working. 8: clark kent is not very successful but when danger comes super.
