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| Author | : Michael Denning |
| Publisher | : Verso |
| Total Pages | : 596 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9781859841709 |
As garment workers, longshoremen, autoworkers, sharecroppers and clerks took to the streets, striking and organizing unions in the midst of the Depression, artists, writers and filmmakers joined the insurgent social movement by creating a cultural front. Disney cartoonists walked picket lines, and Billie Holiday sand 'Strange Fruit' at the left-wing cabaret, Café Society. Duke Ellington produced a radical musical, Jump for Joy, New York garment workers staged the legendary Broadway revue Pins and Needles, and Orson Welles and his Mercury players took their labor operas and anti-fascist Shakespeare to Hollywood and made Citizen Kane. A major reassessment of US cultural history, The Cultural Front is a vivid mural of this extraordinary upheaval which reshaped American culture in the twentieth century.
| Author | : Paul Hansom |
| Publisher | : Dictionary of Literary Biograp |
| Total Pages | : 536 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
This award-winning series systematically presents career biographies of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods.
| Author | : Warren Susman |
| Publisher | : Pantheon |
| Total Pages | : 481 |
| Release | : 2012-10-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0307826147 |
Bringing together for the first time the best of twenty-five years of unique critical work, Warren Susman takes us on a startling tour through the conflicts and events which have transformed the social, political, and cultural face of America in this century. Probing a rich panoply of images from the mass media and advertising, testing prevalent intellectual and economic theories, linking the revolutions in communications and technology to the rise of a new pantheon of popular heroes. Susman documents and analyzes the process through which the older, Puritan-republican, producer-capitalist culture has given way to the leisure-oriented, consumer society we now inhabit: the culture of abundance.
| Author | : Shelly Eversley |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 120 |
| Release | : 2004-03-29 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1135883343 |
In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called 'the real Negro' - in twentieth-century American literature. Eversley argues that the modern emergence of the interest in 'the real Negro' transforms the question of what race an author belongs into a question of what it takes to belong to
| Author | : Daniel H. Borus |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 329 |
| Release | : 2011-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0742515079 |
The book describes the ways in which American thinkers and artists in the first two decades of the twentieth century challenged notions that a single principle explained all relevant phenomena, opting instead for a pluralistic world in which many truths, goods, and beauties coexisted. It argues that the bracketing of the idea that all knowledge was integrated allowed for a new appreciation of the importance of context and contingency.
| Author | : Susan Currell |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2009-03-21 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0748630856 |
Introduces the major cultural and intellectual trends of the decade by introducing and assessing the development of the primary cultural forms: namely, Fiction, Poetry and Drama, Music and Performance, Film and Radio, and Visual Art and Design. A fifth chapter focuses on the unprecedented rise in the 1920s of Leisure and Consumption.
| Author | : Lois Tyson |
| Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 173 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : American literature |
| ISBN | : 0814206263 |
While it is reasonable to assume that our national literature would offer a fertile field in which to explore the interaction between the ideological and psychological dimensions of American life, critics generally have kept these two domains separate, and the dominant model has consisted of an archaic notion of the individual in society.
| Author | : Martin Halliwell |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2008-10-07 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0748631321 |
Will the twenty-first century be the next American Century? Will American power and ideas dominate the globe in the coming years? Or is the prestige of the United States likely to crumble beneath the pressure of new international challenges? This ground-breaking book explores the changing patterns of American thought and culture at the dawn of the new millennium, when the world's richest nation has never been more powerful or more controversial. It brings together some of the most eminent North American and European thinkers to investigate the crucial issues and challenges facing the United States during the early years of our new century.From the subterranean political shifts beneath the electoral landscape to the latest biomedical advances, from the literary response to 9/11 to the rise of reality television, this book explores the political, social and cultural contours of contemporary American life - but it also places the United States within a global narrative of commerce, cultural exchange, i
| Author | : Jennifer Ashton |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 2006-01-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139448595 |
In this overview of twentieth-century American poetry, Jennifer Ashton examines the relationship between modernist and postmodernist American poetics. Ashton moves between the iconic figures of American modernism - Stein, Williams, Pound - and developments in contemporary American poetry to show how contemporary poetics, specially the school known as language poetry, have attempted to redefine the modernist legacy. She explores the complex currents of poetic and intellectual interest that connect contemporary poets with their modernist forebears. The works of poets such as Gertrude Stein and John Ashbery are explained and analysed in detail. This major account of the key themes in twentieth-century poetry and poetics develops important ways to read both modernist and postmodernist poetry through their similarities as well as their differences. It will be of interest to all working in American literature, to modernists, and to scholars of twentieth-century poetry.
| Author | : Winfried Fluck |
| Publisher | : Gunter Narr Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : United States |
| ISBN | : 9783823341734 |
