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Culture of the Roaring 20’s

THE RISE OF MOVIES AND "TALKIES"

Silent Movies Charlie Chaplin
 * WITH MORE $ AMERICAN POPULATION WANTED MORE LEISURE ACTIVITIES
 * MOVIES FILLED THIS VOID
 * SILENT MOVIES BACAME "TALKIES" WHEN SOUND WAS ADDED. CHARLIE CHAPLIN, "THE LITTLE TRAMP" WAS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS STARS IN MOTION PICTURE HISTORY
 * BELOW ARE MORE FAMOUS ACTORS/ACTRESSES AND MOVIES OF THE



“Talkies” The Jazz Singer Starring Al Jolson



Mary Pickford “America’s Sweetheart”

 "The Shiek" starring Rudolph Valentino

 

VOICES OF THE LOST GENERATION DOMINATE LITERATURE

Young writers and intellectuals believed this new modern society was cold, materialistic, and impersonal - without opportunities for personal fulfillment. Blames WWI - Ernest Hemingway’s novel,  A Farewell to Arms, tells about his generation’s contempt for the war.

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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 28pt; font-weight: bold; language: en-US;">F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the new youth culture in novels like, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 52.5%; font-weight: bold; language: en-US;">The Great Gatsby and The Other Side of Paradise

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