Depression Lessons

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  11 Jun 12

  Depression Lessons #7

  Daniel Riccuito

  A brief ode to screenwriter Earl Baldwin, in whose hands fresh dames and tough guys are pared down to emit sincere nervous energy.

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  14 Feb 12

  Depression Lessons #6

  Daniel Riccuito

  A toast to the intoxicated style of early talkies and their tendency to go joyfully awry.

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  14 Dec 11

  Depression Lessons #5

  Daniel Riccuito

  George Raft delivers a speech to Joan Bennett that should be dripping with self-pity but instead soars with slang and speed.

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  23 Nov 11

  Depression Lessons #4

  Daniel Riccuito

  A work-in-progress lexicon of depressed speak. Tell offs and witticisms as amorphously surreal as a Max Fleischer cartoon!

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  19 Oct 11

  Depression Lessons #3

  Daniel Riccuito

  With the advent of Talkies during the Depression the US suddenly sung in raucous dialects, breaking the myth of a unified movie audience.

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  20 Sep 11

  Depression Lessons #2

  Daniel Riccuito

  The key line in William Wellman’s scrappy 1933 masterpiece, Wild Boys of the Road.

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  24 Aug 11

  Depression Lessons #1

  Daniel Riccuito

  The first in a series of cinematic anecdotes found in the tremendously relevant cinema of the Great Depression.

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