03705nam 22007454a 450 991081025850332120200520144314.01-282-48596-297866124859611-60473-349-7(CKB)1000000000816881(EBL)515664(OCoLC)468765147(SSID)ssj0000342173(PQKBManifestationID)11947743(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342173(PQKBWorkID)10284375(PQKB)11655762(StDuBDS)EDZ0000204110(MiAaPQ)EBC515664(MdBmJHUP)muse13692(Au-PeEL)EBL515664(CaPaEBR)ebr10340769(CaONFJC)MIL248596(EXLCZ)99100000000081688120080811d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrRealism for the masses aesthetics, popular front pluralism, and U.S. culture, 1935-1947 /Chris Vials1st ed.Jackson University Press of Mississippic20091 online resource (275 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-60473-123-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-223) and index.Introduction: The people's form finds its audience : popular front realism and the culture industries -- Taking down the Great White Hope : the popular front boxing narrative -- Radio soaps, Broadway lights : Lillian Hellman, Shirley Graham, and the interpellation of female audiences -- Realism with a little sex in it : Erskine Caldwell's challenge to Gone with the wind -- Asian yeoman and ugly Americans : Carlos Bulosan, H.T. Tsiang, and the U.S. literary market -- The popular front in the American century : Life magazine, Margaret Bourke-White, and partisan objectivity.Realism for the Masses, is an exploration of how the concept of realism entered mass culture, and from there, how it tried to remake ?America.? The literary and artistic creations of American realism are generally associated with the late nineteenth century. But this book argues that the aesthetic actually saturated American culture in the 1930's and 1940's and that the left social movements of the period were in no small part responsible. The book examines the prose of Carlos Bulosan and H. T. Tsiang; the photo essays of Margaret Bourke-White in Life magazine; the bestsellers of Erskine CaldwelPopular cultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryLiberalismUnited StatesHistory20th centuryCultural pluralismUnited StatesHistory20th centuryCultural industriesUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAesthetics, AmericanHistory20th centuryRealismSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismUnited StatesCivilization1918-1945United StatesIntellectual life20th centuryPopular cultureHistoryLiberalismHistoryCultural pluralismHistoryCultural industriesHistoryAesthetics, AmericanHistoryRealismSocial aspectsHistoryAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.973.91Vials Chris1649299MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810258503321Realism for the masses4092896UNINA