Nostalgia: Spotlight On The Twenties: Michael Anglo

The Roaring Twenties? The Gay Twenties? The Dull Twenties? The Treacherous Twenties? Was it the gilded Jazz Age luxuriating in post-War euphoria or or the first decade of the modern world freeing itself from the traditions that came to an end in the trenches of France and Belgium several years earlier? This is an attempt to answer these questions in a colourful panorama. Anglo recounts the decade: how the revolution in media and transport touched ordinary people and why a new mass culture arose despite the attempts of custom and vested interest to ensure otherwise. In the cinema the animated cartoon and documentary made their first appearances; replacing the stage and music hall. In Britain, political controversy raged and the country divided over the General Strike of 1926. In Weimar Germany crippling inflation led to civilised anthropophagy as the masses struggled to feed themselves. In the U.S., jazz, Prohibition and the mobs ruled the day. Illustrated with black and white and colour archival photographs.