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With the passage of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America in 1919, the ‘land of the free' became the land of the dry. A new age of sobriety and temperance was to dawn in America, however, the ban on alcohol succeeded in creating a much more remarkable period of rum-running, speakeasies, and an underground counter-culture in many urban centers that lasted throughout the Roaring Twenties. In the interest of understanding this culture and its lasting effects on American ideologies, this course will begin with a historical overview of the period in question and then move on to an investigation of portrayals of Prohibition in American literature and film and their potential to influence cultural memory in the Unites States. |
