1930s

Question 1

1930s
Documentary form

Answer 1

John Steinbeck “Grapes of Wrath”
John Dos Passos “USA” trilogy
Erskine Caldwell “Tobacco Road”

Question 2

1930s
Detective novels

Answer 2

• Most popular genres
• Different from British “polite” tradition.
• More truculent and violent
• Low depths of cities
• Bitter loner protagonists /contempt for the law they defend
• More direct social relevance
• Dig into social and political corruption (natural offshoots of capitalism
• Exposes some of the ugliest aspects of the existing social system.
• Dashiel Hammett
  “The Red Harvest”
  “The Maltese Falcon”
  “The Glass Key”
  “The Thin Man”
• Raymond Chandler
  “The Big Sleep”
  “The Long Goodbye”

Question 3

1930s
Experimental writing

Answer 3

• Henry Miller
  “Tropic of Cancer”
  “Tropic of Capricorn”
  “Black Spring”
• William Faulkner
  “Yoknapawtawpha & the South”

Question 4

1930s
The Group Theatre

Answer 4

• Intended as a base for the kind of theatre that founders and their colleagues believed in.
• “American acting technique”
• Method acting i.e. Stanislavski
• Actors Studio
• Clifford Odets
  “Waiting for Lefty”
  “Awake and Sing!”
  “Golden Boy”