| Description |
1 online resource (xxxi, 280 pages) : illustrations, portraits. |
| Series |
Twentieth-century American culture |
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Twentieth-century American culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-268) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
COVER; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Case Studies; Acknowledgements; Chronology of 1940s 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 1940s in the Contemporary American Imagination; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Nineteen forties -- Social aspects -- United States.
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United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945.
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United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
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Nineteen forties. (OCoLC)fst01037793
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Popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01071344
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Kultur.
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United States.
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| Chronological Term |
Since 1900
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Title |
American culture in the nineteen forties |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Foertsch, Jacqueline, 1964- American culture in the 1940s. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008 9780748624126 (DLC) 2008411323 (OCoLC)184821828 |
| ISBN |
9780748630349 (electronic bk.) |
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0748630341 (electronic bk.) |
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