Realism for the masses : aesthetics, popular front pluralism, and U.S. culture, 1935-1947 / / Chris Vials.

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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:xlii, 232 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The people's form finds its audience : popular front realism and the culture industries
  • Taking down the Great White Hope : the popular front boxing narrative
  • Radio soaps, Broadway lights : Lillian Hellman, Shirley Graham, and the interpellation of female audiences
  • Realism with a little sex in it : Erskine Caldwell's challenge to Gone with the wind
  • Asian yeoman and ugly Americans : Carlos Bulosan, H.T. Tsiang, and the U.S. literary market
  • The popular front in the American century : Life magazine, Margaret Bourke-White, and partisan objectivity.