American Culture in the 1940sEdinburgh University Press, 27 de març 2008 - 312 pàgines 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. |
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... late 1940s. Popular editor and essayist Norman Cousins observed, just as the war ended, that 'victory has given us no real “respite” ... but has created instead an emergency' as intense as 'Dunkirk or Stalingrad or Pearl Harbor'.1 Out ...
... late 1940s. Popular editor and essayist Norman Cousins observed, just as the war ended, that 'victory has given us no real “respite” ... but has created instead an emergency' as intense as 'Dunkirk or Stalingrad or Pearl Harbor'.1 Out ...
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... late 1940s. Since many of the major 'isms' of this decade – isolationism, interventionism, patriotism, nationalism – verged often into impassioned opinion and even irrational jingoism and paranoia, it is difficult to speak in terms of a ...
... late 1940s. Since many of the major 'isms' of this decade – isolationism, interventionism, patriotism, nationalism – verged often into impassioned opinion and even irrational jingoism and paranoia, it is difficult to speak in terms of a ...
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... late 1930s, a sizeable contingent of average Americans questioned the sacrifice being asked of them for a second time in a twenty-year time span. In fact, in its early days, the war for many appeared less a campaign of genocide than an ...
... late 1930s, a sizeable contingent of average Americans questioned the sacrifice being asked of them for a second time in a twenty-year time span. In fact, in its early days, the war for many appeared less a campaign of genocide than an ...
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... late 1930s. Yet economic withdrawal included the same hazards as economic involvement: cutting off defender-nations did greater harm than cutting off powerful aggressors – as Roosevelt noted in the case of the Spanish Civil War – and ...
... late 1930s. Yet economic withdrawal included the same hazards as economic involvement: cutting off defender-nations did greater harm than cutting off powerful aggressors – as Roosevelt noted in the case of the Spanish Civil War – and ...
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... late 1940s. In 1947, the prolific journalist and founding editor of the New Republic, Walter Lippmann, dissected Kennan's arguments in a slim but searing polemic entitled The Cold War, bringing that phrase into common currency. Lippmann ...
... late 1940s. In 1947, the prolific journalist and founding editor of the New Republic, Walter Lippmann, dissected Kennan's arguments in a slim but searing polemic entitled The Cold War, bringing that phrase into common currency. Lippmann ...
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2 Radio and Music | 63 |
3 Theatre and Film | 97 |
4 Visual Art Serious and Popular | 135 |
5 The Arts of Sacrifice and Consumption | 169 |
The 1940s in the Contemporary American Imagination | 201 |
Notes | 227 |
Bibliography | 257 |
Index | 269 |
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