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The other fifties : interrogating midcentury American icons
Record details
- ISBN: 0252022718 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0252065743 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Bibliography: p. 330-332. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The frustrated persuader : Fairfax M. Cone and the Edsel advertising campaign, 1957-59 / James L. Baughman -- Postwar white girls' dark others / Wini Breines -- Mau Mau's American career, 1952-57 / Joel Foreman -- The opening of America : meaningful difference in 1950s television / Horace Newcomb -- Watching Elvis : the male rock star as object of the gaze / David R. Shumway -- Memory and repression in early ethnic television : the example of Gertrude Berg and the Goldbergs / Donald Weber -- What Lola got : cultural carelessness on Broadway / David Van Leer -- The prime of Miss Kim Novak : struggling over the feminine in the star image / Jackie Byars -- Split screens : framing and passing in Pillow talk / Cynthia J. Fuchs -- Democracy, capitalism, and American literature : the cold war construction of J.D. Salinger's paperback hero / Leerom Medovoi -- Something old, something new, something borrowed, something (red, white, and) blue : Ayn Rand's Atlas shrugged and objectivist ideology / Stacey Olster -- The road to rapprochement : Krushchev's 1959 visit to America / Stephen J. Whitfield. |
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| Subject: | United States > Civilization > 1945- Popular culture > United States. United States > Social life and customs > 1945-1970. Nineteen fifties. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at State Library of Alabama.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| APLS | 973.92 OTH | 31291002320453 | STACKS | Available | - |
