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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
M Keith Booker |
| ISBN: | 0313321655 9780313321658 |
| OCLC Number: | 47989985 |
| Description: | 226 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: America as utopia - or not -- "Soiled, torn, and dead": the bleak vision of American literary fiction in the long 1950s -- Un-American activities: American realism and the utopian imagination of leftist fiction in the long 1950s -- Monsters, cowboys, and criminals: Jim Thompson and the dark turn in American popular culture in the long 1950s -- American film in the long 1950s: from Hitchcock to Disney. |
| Series Title: | Contributions to the study of American literature, no. 13 |
| Responsibility: | M. Keith Booker. |
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- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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- Realism in literature.
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