Icons of American Popular Culture: From P.T. Barnum to Jennifer Lopez

ISBN-13: 9780765622983 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 280 str.

Robert C. Cotrell; Robert C. Cottrell

Opis

Accounts of political debates, economic developments, and military conflicts are all staples of our history, but there is much more to the American story. This appealing book fills in another dimension by tracing the evolution of American popular culture over the past two centuries. In ten chapters, each revolving around the lives of two remarkable individuals who are in some way emblematic of their times, Icons of American Popular Culture provides an intriguing window on the social, economic, and political history of our democracy from the antebellum period to the present.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Democratic Showmen: James Gordon Bennett and P. T. Barnum; 2. Exponents of the Culture of Consumption: Marshall Field and Horatio Alger; 3. Stars of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley: Lillian Russell and Irving Berlin; 4. The Cinematic Artist and the Literary Lion: D. W. Griffith and Ernest Hemingway; 5. The New Woman and the New Negro: Clara Bow and Bessie Smith; 6. Voices of Radical Culture: Margaret Bourke-White and Woody Guthrie; 7. American Heroes: Hank Greenberg and Edward R. Murrow; 8. American Rebels: Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley; 9. American Icons during a Time of Unrest: John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Muhammad Ali; 10. American Dreamers: Michael Jordan and Jennifer Lopez.

O autorze

Robert C. Cottrell