1930s Culture
Background
Inexpensive movies, and the growth of radio, helped people to escape the negative feelings of the Great
Depression. As always, entertaining reflects the culture and society it is created in. Therefore, many of the
themes in music, movies, radio and other forms of entertainment reflected the struggle of living during this
tough time.
Directions
Research mass culture of the 1930s while answering the questions below.
List two popular movies:
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Who was Frank Capra and what did he try to show in his movies?
List one of his famous movies
List two popular radio programs:
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2.
War of the Worlds
What was it?
Who was responsible for it?
What were people’s reaction to it?
List two famous musicians and one of their most famous songs:
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2.
Federal Arts Program
What was it?
What famous murals and/or paintings were created because of it?
Who was Dorothea Lange?
Look at her Migrant Mother photographs
What was the purpose of the pictures?
What emotions are they meant to cause?
List two famous writers and their works:
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