The cultural front : the laboring of American culture in the Twentieth Century / Michael Denning.
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London ; New York :
Verso,
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The left and American culture
- Waiting for Lefty
- Part II. Anatomy of the cultural front
- Marching on May Day : cultural politics
- Ballads for Americans : aesthetic ideologies
- Part III. Formations of the cultural front
- The decline and fall of the Lincoln Republic : Dos Passo's U.S.A.
- "The literary class war" : rethinking proletarian literature
- "The tenement thinking" : ghetto pastorals
- Grapes of wrath : "the art and science of migratin'"
- Labor on revue : the popular front musical theater
- Cabaret blues
- The politics of magic : Orson Welles' allegories of anti-fascism
- "Who's afraid of the big bad Walt?" Disney's radical cartoonists
- American culture and socialist theory
- Conclusion : the old left : eleven outlined epitaphs.