American culture in the 1940s / Jacqueline Foertsch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foertsch, Jacqueline, 1964-

Series:

Twentieth-Century American Culture

Twentieth-century American culture

Twentieth-Century American Culture : 20CAC

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Nineteen forties.

United States--Civilization--1918-1945.

United States.

United States--Civilization--1945-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the major cultural forms of 1940's 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 1940's the book culminates with a chapter on the 'culture of war'. Rather than splitting the decade at 1945, Jacqueline Foertsch argues persuasively that the 1940's should be taken as a whole, seeking out links between wartime and postwar American culture.

Contents:

COVER; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Case Studies; Acknowledgements; Chronology of 1940's 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 1940's in the Contemporary American Imagination; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-268) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-35756-1

9786611357566

0-7486-3034-1

OCLC:

476158635