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New York City in the '40s

a course on the the literary and cultural history of NYC in the golden age of the 1940s

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Weegee, The Famous

January 5, 2015December 22, 2014 by dpenn

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Pages

  • Course Syllabus
  • Possible Research Topics
  • Course Assignments
  • NYC in the 40s–a Google Map

Research Projects

  • A Look at Bebop
  • A New Kind of Newspaper: Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and “The People’s Voice”
  • An Invented Life: The Harlem Brand Emblazoned on Stories of the Wild West
  • Friendship and Verse: The Poetry of Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop
  • Lisette Model and Berenice Abbott
  • More Often Than Twice a Year
  • Parkchester Apartments
  • Paul and Percival Goodman’s “Master Plan for Manhattan”
  • Reactions to the Rise of Abstract Expressionism
  • The City of Noir: A Performance of Fantasy and Reality in Three Films
  • The Little Man and the Big Clock: Two Crime Dramas and Totalitarian Theory in the Age of Anxiety
  • The New Republic in New York
  • The New York Photo League
  • The Noir City: A Performance of Fantasy and Reality in Three Films
  • Tragedy and Politics in the Plays of Arthur Miller
  • “The Preservation of Disunity: Confronting Pain in The Company She Keeps”
  • test map
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