Ambiguous borderlands : shadow imagery in Cold War American culture / Erik Mortenson.
Material type: TextPublisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]Copyright date: �20Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780809334339
- 080933433X
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Metaphor in literature
- Cold War in literature
- Cold War in motion pictures
- Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States
- Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Cold War -- Influence
- United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- American literature
- Civilization
- Cold War (1945-1989) in literature
- Cold War (1945-1989) in motion pictures
- Metaphor in literature
- Politics and culture
- Popular culture
- Social aspects
- War -- Influence
- United States
- Cold War (1945-1989)
- Since 1900
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- PS374.C57 M67 2016eb
- HIS036060 | LIT004020 | PER004030 | PHO005000
"This book examines shadow imagery in postwar literature, television, film, photography, and popular culture"-- Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Figures list; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Shadows and Their Place in Postwar America; 1. A FASCINATING ANXIETY: The Paradoxes of Life in the Shadow of the Bomb; 2. WHAT THE SHADOWS KNOW: The Return of the Crime-Fighting Hero the Shadow in Late-1950s Literature; 3. TAKING BACK THE SHADOWS: Allen Ginsberg's and Jack Kerouac's Struggles to Reclaim the American Unconscious; 4. THE GHOST OF HUMANISM: The Disappearing Figure in Postwar Photography; 5. THE BATTLE OF LIGHT AND DARK: Chiaroscuro in Late Film Noir.
6. A JOURNEY INTO THE SHADOWS: The Twilight Zone's Visual Critique of the Cold WarCONCLUSION: Adumbration, Penumbra, Foreshadowing; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author; Back Cover.
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