American Culture in the 1940s (Twentieth-Century American Culture)

✍ Scribed by Jacqueline Foertsch

Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 313
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 Features: * Focused case studies featuring key texts, genres, writers, artists and cultural trends * Detailed chronology of 1940s American culture * Bibliographies for each chapter * 20 black and white illustrations

✦ Table of Contents

COVER......Page 1
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 7
Case Studies......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Chronology of 1940s American Culture......Page 12
Introduction: The Intellectual Context......Page 34
1. Fiction and Journalism......Page 66
2. Radio and Music......Page 96
3. Theatre and Film......Page 130
4. Visual Art, Serious and Popular......Page 168
5. The Arts of Sacrifice and Consumption......Page 202
Conclusion: The 1940s in the Contemporary American Imagination......Page 234
Notes......Page 260
Bibliography......Page 290
Index......Page 302

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