American Culture in the 1940s / / Jacqueline Foertsch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Foertsch, Jacqueline,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Twentieth-Century American Culture : 20CAC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748624133');This book explores the major cultural forms of 1940s America - fiction and non-fiction; music and radio; film and theatre; serious and popular visual arts - and key texts, trends and figures, from Native Son to Citizen Kane, from Hiroshima to HUAC, and from Dr Seuss to Bob Hope. After discussing the dominant ideas that inform the 1940s the book culminates with a chapter on the 'culture of war'. Rather than splitting the decade at 1945, Jacqueline Foertsch argues persuasively that the 1940s should be taken as a whole, seeking out links between wartime and postwar American culture.Key FeaturesFocused case studies featuring key texts, genres, writers, artists and cultural trendsDetailed chronology of 1940s American cultureBibliographies for each chapter20 black and white illustrations"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Case Studies -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology of 1940s American Culture -- Introduction: The Intellectual Context -- 1. Fiction and Journalism -- 2. Radio and Music -- 3. Theatre and Film -- 4. Visual Art, Serious and Popular -- 5. The Arts of Sacrifice and Consumption -- Conclusion: The 1940s in the Contemporary American Imagination -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index