1930S Pop Culture
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- Created on: 10-12-17 23:52
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- Pop Culture! in the 1930s
- FILM
- 60-70 million Americans went to the cinema each week
- Specific films addressed the Depression
- Gold Digger
- 42nd Street
- Footlight Parade
- Movies were no longer silent; they were musicals
- There were many famous stars
- Judy Garland
- Shirley Temple
- Fred Astaire
- Singing and dancing boosted morale and lightened the burden of the Depression
- THEATRE
- Productions dramatically decreased
- WPA built new theatres
- Federal Theatre Project 1935 funded performances for actors and artists who were unemployed
- ***** Theatre Project gave work to 12,000 African Americans
- SPORTS
- Baseball attendance decreased from 17 million in 1929 to 11 million in 1933
- There were baseball stars
- Joe Dimaggio
- Babe Ruth
- Sea Biscuit (the underdog) beat War Admiral in 1938, in a horse race
- ICONIC
- 40 million radio listeners
- Symbol of the American people
- 4 gold medals achieved in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
- COMIC BOOKS
- American people were looking for a hero to save them
- Action Comics produced Superman in 1938 (first ever superhero)
- There were other superheroes too
- Batman (the vigilante)
- Wonder Woman (empowered women)
- Captain America (symbol of patriotism)
- FILM
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