Realism for the masses [electronic resource] : aesthetics, popular front pluralism, and U.S. culture, 1935-1947 / Chris Vials.
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TextPublication details: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2009.Description: xlii, 232 p. : illSubject(s): - 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
- 973.91 22
- E169 .V623 2009eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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