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Author Vials, Chris.

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

Imprint Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2009.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xlii, 232 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-223) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781604731231 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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