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Ambiguous borderlands : shadow imagery in Cold War American culture / Erik Mortenson.
Van Pelt Library PS374.C57 M67 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mortenson, Erik, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Metaphor in literature.
- Cold War in literature.
- Cold War (1945-1989) in literature.
- Cold War in motion pictures.
- Cold War (1945-1989) in motion pictures.
- Cold War--Social aspects--United States.
- Cold War.
- Social aspects.
- United States.
- Politics and culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Politics and culture.
- History.
- Cold War--Influence.
- United States--Civilization--1945-.
- Civilization.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- War--Influence.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 307 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- "This book examines shadow imagery in postwar literature, television, film, photography, and popular culture"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 A Fascinating Anxiety: The Paradoxes of Life in the Shadow of the Bomb 20
- 2 What the Shadows Know: The Return of the Crime-Fighting Hero the Shadow in Late-1950s Literature 54
- 3 Taking Back the Shadows: Alien Ginsberg's and Jack Kerouac's Struggles to Reclaim the American Unconscious 91
- 4 The Ghost of Humanism: The Disappearing Figure in Postwar Photography 127
- 5 The Battle of Light and Dark: Chiaroscuro in Late Film Noir 173
- 6 A Journey into the Shadows: The Twilight Zone's Visual Critique of the Cold War 217.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-293) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780809334322
- 0809334321
- OCLC:
- 922034401
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