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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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Lisette Model and Berenice Abbott

Lisette Model, Reflection, Delancey Street

Follow this link to see Amy Schaefer’s webpage on the life and work of the photographers Lisette Model and Berenice Abbott

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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