Realism for the masses : aesthetics, popular front pluralism, and U.S. culture, 1935-1947 / / Chris Vials
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| Autore: |
Vials Chris
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| Titolo: |
Realism for the masses : aesthetics, popular front pluralism, and U.S. culture, 1935-1947 / / Chris Vials
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| Pubblicazione: | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (275 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973.91 |
| Soggetto topico: | Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century |
| Liberalism - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Cultural pluralism - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Cultural industries - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Aesthetics, American - History - 20th century | |
| Realism - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century | |
| American literature - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Civilization 1918-1945 |
| United States Intellectual life 20th century | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-223) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 Caldwel |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Realism for the masses |
| ISBN: | 1-282-48596-2 |
| 9786612485961 | |
| 1-60473-349-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910810258503321 |
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