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Author:

Vials, Chris.

Title:

Realism for the masses : aesthetics, popular front pluralism, and U.S. culture, 1935-1947 / Chris Vials.

Publisher:

University Press of Mississippi,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xlii, 232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
United States--Civilization--1918-1945
United States--Intellectual life--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--History--United States--History--20th century.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-223) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

1604731230 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781604731231 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)244177142

LCCN:

2008034577

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)