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959137
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b713507
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Booker, M. Keith.
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| Title & Author
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The post-utopian imagination : : American culture in the long 1950s /\ M. Keith Booker.
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| Publication Statement
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Westport, Conn. :: Greenwood Press,, 2002.
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| Series Statement
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Contributions to the study of American literature ;; no. 13
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1 online resource (226 pages)
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0313076359
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: 9780313076350
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0313321655
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9780313321658
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Filmography: pages 218-220.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-217) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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In America, the long 1950s were marked by an intense skepticism toward utopian alternatives to the existing capitalist order. This skepticism was closely related to the climate of the Cold War, in which the demonization of socialism contributed to a dismissal of all alternatives to capitalism. This book studies how American novels and films of the long 1950s reflect the loss of the utopian imagination and mirror the growing concern that capitalism brought routinization, alienation, and other dehumanizing consequences. The volume relates the decline of the utopian vision to the rise of late cap.
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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Cold War in literature.
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Culture in motion pictures.
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Dystopias in literature.
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Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Motion pictures-- United States-- History.
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Political fiction, American-- History and criticism.
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Politics and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Popular culture-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Realism in literature.
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American fiction.
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Cold War (1945-1989) in literature.
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Culture in motion pictures.
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Dystopias in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Literature and society.
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Motion pictures.
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Political fiction, American.
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Politics and literature.
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Popular culture.
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Realism in literature.
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Film.
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Literatur.
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Politik.
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Pop-Kultur.
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Roman.
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United States.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.5409358
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| LC Classification
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PS374.P6B66 2002
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