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Author:

Booker, M. Keith.

Title:

The post-utopian imagination : American culture in the long 1950s / M. Keith Booker.

Publisher:

Greenwood Press,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

226 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.
Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
Political fiction, American--History and criticism.
Motion pictures--United States--History.
Dystopias in literature.
Cold War in literature.
Realism in literature

Notes:

Filmography: p. 218-220. Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-217) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: America as utopia - or not -- "Soiled, torn, and dead": the bleak vision of American literary fiction in the long 1950s -- Un-American activities: American realism and the utopian imagination of leftist fiction in the long 1950s -- Monsters, cowboys, and criminals: Jim Thompson and the dark turn in American popular culture in the long 1950s -- American film in the long 1950s: from Hitchcock to Disney.

ISBN:

9780313321658 (alk. paper)
0313321655 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)47989985

LCCN:

2001050100

Locations:

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

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)