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Author Foertsch, Jacqueline, 1964-

Title American culture in the 1940s / Jacqueline Foertsch
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 280 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Series Twentieth-century American culture
Twentieth-century American culture.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-268) and index
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Subject Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Nineteen forties -- Social aspects -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Civilization
Popular culture
Kultur
SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139943
United States -- Civilization -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139945
Subject United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008411323
ISBN 9780748630349
0748630341
1281357561
9781281357564
9786611357566
6611357564
Other Titles American culture in the nineteen forties