Documentary Expression and Thirties America

Bibliographic Data

ID10235135
AuthorsThomas A Krueger (corresponding author), William R Stott
Year1974
Volume40
Issue3
Pages506
Publication date1974-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofDocumentary expression and thirties America., William Stott, 1973
VenueThe Journal of Southern History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4642 • E-ISSN: 2325-6893
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2206532
OpenAlexW2075255833
LanguageEN

A comprehensive inquiry into the attitudes and ambitions that characterized the documentary impulse of the thirties. The subject is a large one, for it embraces (among much else) radical journalism, academic sociology, the esthetics of photography, Government relief programs, radio broadcasting, the literature of social work, the rhetoric of political persuasion, and the effect of all these on the traditional arts of literature, painting, theater and dance. The great merit of Mr. Stott's study lies precisely in its wide-ranging view of this complex terrain.-Hilton Kramer, New York Times Book Review [Scott] might be called the Aristotle of documentary. No one before him has so comprehensively surveyed the achievement of the 1930s, suggesting what should be admired, what condemned, and why; no one else has so persuasively furnished an aesthetic for judging the form.-Times Literary Supplement

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Censorship · Dance · Journalism · Literature · Media studies · Painting · Persuasion · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Subject (documents · The arts · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Law · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Philosophy

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