The Representation of Photography and Texts of "Forgotten People" in the 1930s America
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18K12334
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02030:English literature and literature in the English language-related
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| Research Institution | Kwansei Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
TAKAMURA Mineo 関西学院大学, 国際学部, 准教授 (90634204)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2020-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
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| Keywords | 写真 / アメリカ / モダニズム / ウォーカー・エヴァンス / ジェイムズ・エイジ― / 写真と文学 / 1930年代 / アメリカ文学 / アメリカ文化 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Throughout the research, I examined the relationship between photography and texts in 1930s America, especially focusing on the single text Let Us Now Praise Our Famous Men by Walker Evans and James Agee. Since the Wall Street Crash in 1929, poverty-stricken urban laborers and farmers attracted social attentions. FSA employed a lot of photographers and created records of "forgotten people." These realistic photographs formed American Modernism in photograph and created phenomenological views on "things" and invented the literary method of the minute description of "things." I consider how such an aesthetic achievement is related with the socialistic policy of the American government at the time.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
1930年代、ニューディール期のアメリカ文化・文学は、従来、労働者や農業従事者に焦点を当てたリアリスティックなものとして理解されてきた。本研究は写真というメディアが、この時期に大衆的な普及を見るとともに芸術的な表現媒介としての地位を確立したことに注目し、その美学的達成を検討すると共に言語文化への影響を考えることで、モダニズム芸術全体における写真の位置づけの評価を新たな視点のもとに置くことができた。
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