Staging the Depression: The Federal Theatre Project's Dramas of Poverty, 1935-1939
Built on original archival research, this dissertation elucidates how the Federal Theatre Project's (FTP) dramas of Depression-era poverty functioned as proselytism for class-conscious social reform. Through a combination of unique narrative structures and mimetic depictions of class struggle,...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2013
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3603059 |