American culture in the 1940s /

American culture in the 1940s /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Foertsch, Jacqueline, 1964-
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2008.
Description:	xxxi, 280 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Twentieth-century American culture Twentieth-century American culture.
Subject:	Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Nineteen forties. Civilization. Nineteen forties. Popular culture. United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945. United States -- Civilization -- 1945- United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7240013

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Varying Form of Title:	American culture in the nineteen forties
ISBN:	9780748624126 (hbk.) 0748624120 (hbk.) 9780748624133 (pbk.) 0748624139 (pbk.) 9780748622214 0748622217
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-268) and index.
Summary:	From the Publisher: This book explores the major cultural forms of 1940s 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 1940s the book culminates with a chapter on the 'culture of war'. Rather than splitting the decade at 1945, Jacqueline Foertsch argues persuasively that the 1940s should be taken as a whole, seeking out links between wartime and postwar American culture.
Other form:	Online version: Foertsch, Jacqueline, 1964- American culture in the 1940s. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2008

Table of Contents:

List of Figures
List of Case Studies
Acknowledgements
Chronology of 1940s 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 1940s in the Contemporary American Imagination
Notes
Bibliography
Index