LEADER 03705nam 22007454a 450 001 9910810258503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-48596-2 010 $a9786612485961 010 $a1-60473-349-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000816881 035 $a(EBL)515664 035 $a(OCoLC)468765147 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000342173 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11947743 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342173 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10284375 035 $a(PQKB)11655762 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000204110 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC515664 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse13692 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL515664 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10340769 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL248596 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000816881 100 $a20080811d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRealism for the masses $eaesthetics, popular front pluralism, and U.S. culture, 1935-1947 /$fChris Vials 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aJackson $cUniversity Press of Mississippi$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (275 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-60473-123-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 213-223) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aRealism 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 Caldwel 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLiberalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCultural pluralism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCultural industries$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAesthetics, American$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRealism$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y1918-1945 607 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y20th century 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory 615 0$aLiberalism$xHistory 615 0$aCultural pluralism$xHistory 615 0$aCultural industries$xHistory 615 0$aAesthetics, American$xHistory 615 0$aRealism$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a973.91 700 $aVials$b Chris$01649299 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810258503321 996 $aRealism for the masses$94092896 997 $aUNINA