An American Half Century: Postwar Culture and Politics in the USA

An American Half Century: Postwar Culture and Politics in the USA

by Michael Klein (Author)

Synopsis

An eclectic look at mass media and popular culture from contributors including Bell Hooks, Noam Chomsky and Manning Marable. One Step Forward traces radical politics and culture in the US through the Cold War, the swinging sixties and the conservative era of Reagan and Bush. It assesses the main oppositional movements such as the civil rights, women's liberation and peace protestors, their position at the margins, their influence and their legacies. Contributions include: Todd Gitlin on 1968: The Two Cultures ; Jeffrey Walsh on The Radical Muse: US poetry from Allen Ginsberg to Adrienne Rich ; Bell Hooks on Black Women's Literature ; Kevin Carragee on US Media and Popular Culture and Noam Chomsky on The Nineties and Beyond .

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 02 Feb 1994

ISBN 10: 0745305016
ISBN 13: 9780745305011

Author Bio
Michael L. Klein taught film, American studies and theatre at a variety of universities, including Rutgers, California State, Warwick and Ulster and is the author of The English Novel and the Movies. He died in 1992.