American Culture in the 1940s / / Jacqueline Foertsch.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Twentieth-Century American Culture : 20CAC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations |
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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