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Huey Long
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Governor of 1928 in LA
Challenge to Roosevelt Larger than Life Figure Corrupt and Acted as dictator Seen as contender for presidential election until he was assasinated effectively used radio Radical redistribution of wealth (every own home 1/3 of average family wealth used radio to promote these ideas |
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Father Coughlin
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Priest used "bully pulpit" and used radio topromote populist and anti sematic and anti jew politics
Radio program: golden hour of little flower supporter of FDR then became a critic of new deal- tied him to communism |
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Francis Townsend
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Attracted eldery following and tried to get eldery pensions
Social security recognized him as an effort to get money to elderly people |
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NRA
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National recovery act of 1933
Laboring american culture by protecting right to bargaining set standards for industries |
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Wagner Act of 1935
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confirmed right to collective bargaining for unions and led to birth of CIO
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CIO
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listen to mickenberg explain it on my office hours recording session
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WPA
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Works projects administration
Major public works program putting people to work building bridges, roads, and improving public landscape work relief programs for professionals (actors, teachers) |
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Documentary Impulse
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Documentary is thought to just show what is there, but its more of a collage by constructing a narrative (ex: is triple a plowed under- showing multiple things at once to give better collage picture)
Showing suffering of common people to focus on landscape and rural people other than urban Goal: to expose suffering by showing direct experience Defining impulses: show America to itself by showing and documenting experiences of common people Photography, reportage, film , recordings, fiction, living newspaper express this impulse |
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FSA
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Farm security agency and wpa were government impotencies for impulse
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AAA
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A united states federal law of the new deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill of excess livestock
Purpose: reduce crop surplus and therfore effectively raise the value of crops. |
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Plow that Broke the Plains Film
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funded by FSA, released in 1936
Like Triple A, it deals with agricultural crisis by utilizing talents that represent popular front and coalition of motives Distributed by government for free Film plays a ethos of American farmer and seeks explanations from what happened Shows pressures to produce by everything becoming more mechanized Shows people trying to live and do whats right..Basically- they're screwed and we need to do something stemmed from new deal, but controversial because of regulation and government intervention in life Promotes cultural democracy |
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Pare Lorentz
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Created Plow that Broke Plains
Made way to washington and hired as consultant for resettlement Wanted him to make short films, but he suggested one big powerful film Got awesome photographers that were radicalized (Paul strand modernist photographer), Leo Hurtwitz, Ralph Steiner) These were political radicals and wanted film to show farm crisis and why capitalist system was bad |
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Hallie Flanagan
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College professor studied at Harvard and taught theater at Vassar
Received scholarship to study theatre in Europe but she liked Russia for its creative and modern theatrical practices Broad vision for theatre as a tool of reform Wanted wide-range of theater that could also reflect local concerns Mix of classics but also plays that were experimental and consciously controversial |
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Living Newspapers
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Term comes from soviet union where people would act out the news for propaganda
(find out more) |
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Gunnar Myrdal
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Coined American dilemma, published book in 1944 as "problem of American negro"
Defined it as contradiction between ? (freedom, democracy, equal opportunity) and the so called negro problem- puts fundamental question in order of American creed If americans want to become what creed says, they need to act differently- war creates expectations for civil rights revolution Lack of racial democracy (find out more information) |
