The Cultural Front : : the Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century

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"Paperback updated with a new afterword ... 2010."--T,p. verso.
The left and American culture. Waiting for Lefty -- Anatomy of the cultural front. Marching on May Day. Ballads for Americans -- Formations of the cultural front. The decline and fall of the Lincoln republic. "The literary class war" : rethinking proletarian literature. "The tenement thinking". Grapes of wrath : "The art and science of migratin'". Labor on review : 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 -- Conclusions, The old left : eleven outlined epitaphs -- The success and failure of the cultural front.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Verso, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: xx, 580 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781844674640
1844674649

SUBJECTS
Popular culture -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945.
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.