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David CochranPublication Details
BookSmithsonian Institution Press2000Availability
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David Cochran details how, at the height of the Cold War, ten writers and filmmakers challenged such social pieties as the superiority of American democracy, the benevolence of free enterprise, and the sanctity of the suburban family. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- American fiction — 20th century — History and criticism
- Popular literature — United States — History and criticism
- Literature and society — United States — History — 20th century
- Detective and mystery stories, American — History and criticism
- Motion pictures — United States — History
- Fantasy fiction, American — History and criticism
- Film noir — United States — History and criticism
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- "In America Noir David Cochran details how ten writers and filmmakers probed the Cold War’s cultural contradictions and indirectly challenged its social pieties: the superiority of American democracy, the benevolence of free enterprise, and the sanctity of the suburban family." "Cochran argues that these artists pioneered a detached, ironic sensibility in fictions that radically juxtaposed cultural references and blurred the distinctions between "high" and "low" art. Their works would play a crucial role in the emergence of not only a 1960s counterculture but also the postmodernism of a later era."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- Preface: Mapping the Underground Culture
- Introduction: Within the Shell of the Old: The Creation of the Cold War Consensus and the Emergence of the Underground Culture
- Pt. 1. The Killer inside Me: Roman Noir Authors. 1. Slipping Deeper into Hell: Jim Thompson’s Theology of Absurdity. 2. "It’s Always for Nothing": The Paperback Worldview of Charles Willeford
- Pt. 2. Progress and Its Discontents: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors. 3. "I’m Being Ironic": Imperialism, Mass Culture, and the Fantastic World of Ray Bradbury. 4. The Devil and Charles Beaumont
- Pt. 3. Outside Looking In: Minority Artists. 5. "So Much Nonsense Must Make Sense": The Black Vision of Chester Himes. 6. "Some Torture That Perversely Eased": Patricia Highsmith and the Everyday Schizophrenia of American Life
- Pt. 4. Little Shop of Horrors: Independent Filmmakers. 7. "Lots of Socko": The Independent Cinematic Vision of Samuel Fuller. 8. Roger Corman’s Low-Budget Modernism
- Pt. 5. Cracks in the Consensus: Liberal Artists. 9. Richard Condon and the Paranoid Surreal Style in American Politics. 10. Another Dimension: Rod Serling, Consensus Liberalism, and The Twilight Zone
- Conclusion: The Emancipation of Dissonance
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- 1560988134
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