American culture in the 1960s [[electronic resource] /] / Sharon Monteith

• Autore: Monteith Sharon
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.097309046
• Soggetto topico: Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century; Nineteen sixties
• Soggetto geografico: United States Civilization 1945-
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Case Studies; Acknowledgements; Chronology of 1960's American Culture; Introduction: The Intellectual Context; Chapter 1 Music and Performance; Chapter 2 Film and Television; Chapter 3 Fiction and Poetry; Chapter 4 Art and Photography; Chapter 5 New Social Movements and Creative Dissent; Conclusion: The Sixties and its Cultural Legacy; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book charts the changing complexion of American culture in one of the most culturally vibrant of twentieth-century decades. It provides a vivid account of the major cultural forms of 1960's America - music and performance; film and television; fiction and poetry; art and photography - as well as influential texts, trends and figures of the decade: from Norman Mailer to Susan Sontag; from Muhammad Ali's anti-war protests to Tom Lehrer's stand-up comedy; from Bob Dylan to Rachel Carson; and from Pop Art to photojournalism. A chapter on new social movements demonstrates that a current
• Titolo autorizzato: American culture in the 1960s
• ISBN: 1-281-94765-2; 9786611947651; 0-7486-2903-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453844503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Twentieth-century American culture.