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Author:

Denning, Michael.

Title:

The cultural front : the laboring of American culture in the Twentieth Century / Michael Denning.

Edition:

Paperback ed.

Publisher:

Verso,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

xx, 556 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
Arts, American--20th century.
United States--Social life and customs--1918-1945.
Dos Passos, John,--1896-1970.--U.S.A.
Culture populaire--États-Unis--Histoire--20e siècle.
Arts américains.
Arts américains--20e siècle.
États-Unis--Mœurs et coutumes--1918-1945.
Mudança cultural--Século 20--Estados unidos.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-543) and index.

Contents:

Waiting for lefty -- Marching on May Day : cultural politics --Ballads for Americans : aesthetic ideologies -- The decline and fall of the Lincoln republic : Dos Passos's U.S.A. -- "The literary class war" : rethinking proletarian literature -- "The tenement thinking" : ghetto pastorals -- Grapes of wrath : "the art and science of migratin'" -- Labor on revue : the popular front musical theater -- Cabaret blues -- The politics of magic : Orson Welles's allegories of anti-fascism -- "Who's afraid of big bad Walt?" : Disney's radical cartoonists -- American culture and socialist theory -- Conclusion : the old left : eleven outlined epitaphs.

Series:

The Haymarket series

ISBN:

9781859848159
185984815X
9781859841709
1859841708

OCLC:

(OCoLC)35885880

LCCN:

96045602

Locations:

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

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls) — 306.4/0973

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)