Title Twentieth-Century America : the Intellectual and Cultural Context

Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (467 pages) Series Longman Literature In English Series Longman literature in English series. Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Editors' Preface; Longman Literature in English Series; Author's Preface; Introduction: Modernity; The American century; Culture and communications in Middletown; The iron cage of capitalism; Inspire, educate and entertain: the dissemination of mass culture; The society of the spectacle; PART ONE: THE POLITICS OF CULTURE; 1 Cinema; The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction; We didn't know what we were doing: realism and modernism in the silent cinema, 1890s to 1920s Variety: Hollywood and genreWe're nearly in the real world: the coming of sound; The maturity of a style: classical Hollywood cinema, 1930s to 1950s; A somewhat rebellious frame of mind: challenges to the classical style, 1940s to 1960s; A non-Hollywood Hollywood, 1960s to 1980s; More variety: Vietnam and beyond; 2 Painting; Port of New York: realism and modernism in American painting, c. 1900 to 1929; Some downtown stuff: modernism and the city, 1910 to 1930; Duchamp's Fountain: New York Dada, 1917 to 1930 Much more derivative than it seems at first glance: Social Realism and American Scene painting in the DepressionAmerican painting: Edward Hopper and Stuart Davis; The tradition of the new: Abstract Expressionism, 1940s to 1960s; Has modernism failed?: 1950s to 1980s; 3 Architecture; Architecture at the crossroads; Starting from zero: the International Style, 1930s to 1970s; Into the 'ibid' thickets: the Chicago School, 1880s to 1920s; Space, time and architecture: the skyscraper in the 1930s; Standards of living in a new mode of living: Frank Lloyd Wright The need for a new monumentality: a coda to the International Style, 1940s to 1970sLess is a bore: post-modernism, 1960s to 1980s; Mall time; The critical present; PART TWO: THE CULTURE OF POLITICS; 4 From Victorianism to Modernism; Progressivism, Pragmatism and the search for order, c. 1890 to 1917; The first years of our time: the pre-war intellectual rebellion, 1908 to 1917; Twilight of idols: Randolph Bourne; A revolutionary and not a reform magazine: the Masses, 1912 to 1918; Exile's return: the post-war intellectual rebellion Tell about the South: modernity and anti-modernity in the Southern tradition, 1920s to 1940sThe red decade: the 1930s; Individualism, old and new: John Dewey in the 1930s; 5 From the Old Left to the New Left; Communism is twentieth-century Americanism: the Popular Front, 1935 to 1939; The fate of the left: Partisan Review in the 1930s; The failure of nerve: the culture of the Cold War; The middle of the journey: the New York Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s; An end to innocence: Leslie Fiedler, Harold Rosenberg and the trial of Alger Hiss Summary 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 Notes They are, or until some time ago were, radicals: the New York Intellectuals in retrospect Print version record Subject Arts, American -- 20th century. Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. Arts, American Intellectual life Politics and culture SUBJECT United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140367 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317870593 131787059X

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