| Description |
1 online resource (xlii, 232 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. |
| Summary |
Realism for the Masses, is an exploration of how the concept of realism entered mass culture, and from there, how it tried to remake?America.? The literary and artistic creations of American realism are generally associated with the late nineteenth century. But this book argues that the aesthetic actually saturated American culture in the 1930s and 1940s and that the left social movements of the period were in no small part responsible. The book examines the prose of Carlos Bulosan and H.T. Tsiang; the photo essays of Margaret Bourke-White in Life magazine; the bestsellers of Erskine Caldwel. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
Popular culture. |
|
United States. |
|
History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945.
|
|
Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
1918-1945 |
| Subject |
United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
|
|
Intellectual life. |
|
Liberalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
Cultural pluralism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
Cultural industries -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
Liberalism. |
|
Aesthetics, American -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
Cultural pluralism. |
|
Realism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
Realism. |
|
Social aspects. |
|
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
|
|
American literature. |
|
Cultural industries. |
|
HISTORY. |
|
Aesthetics, American. |
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
|
History.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Vials, Chris. Realism for the masses. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2009 9781604731231 (DLC) 2008034577 (OCoLC)244177142 |
| ISBN |
9781604733495 (electronic book) |
|
1604733497 (electronic book) |
|
1604731230 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
|
9781604731231 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
|
9781604731231 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
|
