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Realism for the masses : aesthetics, popular front pluralism, and U.S. culture, 1935-1947 / Chris Vials

Author
Vials, Chris
Published
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
xlii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents
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.
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ISBN
9781604731231 (cloth : alk. paper)
1604731230 (cloth : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and index.
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