03085nam 2200685 a 450 991045142830332120200520144314.01-281-35756-197866113575660-7486-3034-1(CKB)1000000000414354(EBL)343572(OCoLC)476158635(SSID)ssj0000101998(PQKBManifestationID)11116685(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000101998(PQKBWorkID)10048462(PQKB)10083005(SSID)ssj0000411659(PQKBManifestationID)12144850(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411659(PQKBWorkID)10356236(PQKB)11017567(MiAaPQ)EBC343572(Au-PeEL)EBL343572(CaPaEBR)ebr10650691(CaONFJC)MIL135756(EXLCZ)99100000000041435420071218d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAmerican culture in the 1940s[electronic resource] /Jacqueline FoertschEdinburgh Edinburgh University Pressc20081 online resource (313 p.)Twentieth-century American cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-7486-2412-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-268) and index.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; IndexThis 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.Twentieth-Century American CulturePopular cultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryNineteen fortiesUnited StatesCivilization1918-1945United StatesCivilization1945-Electronic books.Popular cultureHistoryNineteen forties.306.0973/09044Foertsch Jacqueline1964-884808MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451428303321American culture in the 1940s2274442UNINA