Twentieth-Century America: The Intellectual and Cultural Context

ISBN-13: 9780582494558 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 466 str.

Douglas Tallack

Opis

The multi-volume Longman literature in English series aims to provide students of literature with a critical introduction to the major genres in their historical and cultural context. This book looks at cinema, painting and architecture in 20th-century America, as well as the culture of politics.

Spis treści

Part 1: The politics of culture  Cinema; Painting; Architecture. Part 2: The culture of politics  From Victorianism to modernism; From the old left to the new left; America at mid-century; Black culture and politics; Feminism  Conclusion: postmodernity

O autorze

Douglas Tallack is Professor of American Studies at the University of Leicester, UK.