America noir: underground writers and filmmakers of the postwar era

"In America Noir David Cochran details how ten writers and filmmakers probed the Cold War's cultural contradictions and indirectly challenged its social pieties: the superiority of American democracy, the benevolence of free enterprise, and the sanctity of the suburban family." "...

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Main Author: Cochran, David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington [u.a.] Smithsonian Inst. Press 2000
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"In America Noir David Cochran details how ten writers and filmmakers probed the Cold War's cultural contradictions and indirectly challenged its social pieties: the superiority of American democracy, the benevolence of free enterprise, and the sanctity of the suburban family." "Cochran argues that these artists pioneered a detached, ironic sensibility in fictions that radically juxtaposed cultural references and blurred the distinctions between "high" and "low" art. Their works would play a crucial role in the emergence of not only a 1960s counterculture but also the postmodernism of a later era."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:XIII, 280 S.
ISBN:1560988134

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