03256nam 2200733 a 450 991077706360332120230721031330.01-281-35756-197866113575660-7486-3034-110.1515/9780748630349(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(DE-B1597)616241(DE-B1597)9780748630349(OCoLC)1302165373(EXLCZ)99100000000041435420071218d2008 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAmerican culture in the 1940s[electronic resource] /Jacqueline FoertschEdinburgh Edinburgh University Pressc20081 online resource (313 p.)Twentieth-Century American Culture : 20CACTwentieth-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-Popular cultureHistoryNineteen forties.306.0973/09044Foertsch Jacqueline1964-1514216MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777063603321American culture in the 1940s3769051UNINA