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The cultural front : the laboring of American culture in the twentieth century / Michael Denning.

Title
The cultural front : the laboring of American culture in the twentieth century / Michael Denning.
Author
Denning, Michael.
Publication
London ; New York : Verso, 2010.

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Description
xx, 580 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century
  • United States > Civilization > 1918-1945
  • United States > Intellectual life > 20th century
Note
  • "Paperback updated with a new afterword ... 2010."--T,p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 9781844674640 (pbk.)
  • 1844674649 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 646399671
  • SCSB-12668724
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library