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Realism for the masses : aesthetics, popular front pluralism, and U.S. culture, 1935-1947
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- Creator
- Chris Vials
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xlii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1604733497, 9781604731231, 9786612485961, 1282485962, 9781604733495, 1604731230
- OCLC
- ocn244177142, ocn468765147
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- 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.
- United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945.
- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.