ISBN:
9780748630349
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (313 pages)
Series Statement:
Twentieth-Century American Culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Print version American Culture in the 1940s
DDC:
306.0973/09044
Keywords:
Nineteen forties
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Popular culture ; United States ; History ; 20th century
;
United States ; Civilization ; 1918-1945
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United States ; Civilization ; 1945-
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1940s America: fiction and non-fiction (specifically newspapers and magazines), music and radio, film and theatre, serious and popular visual arts, and case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade.
Abstract:
COVER -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- 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.
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748630349
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748630349
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