Cold War Narratives: American Culture in the 1950s
Author:   Andrea Carosso
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9783034312707


Pages:   222
Publication Date:   30 January 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Andrea Carosso
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.310kg
ISBN:  

9783034312707


ISBN 10:   3034312709
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   30 January 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Contents: America in the Cold War Years – The Affluent Society – Building the Suburban Nation – Projecting America Through Television – Gray-Flannel-Suit Nation – Beats, Rebels and the Other 1950s – Reshaping Race in America – Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Fordist Counterimaginary.

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Andrea Carosso teaches North American Culture at the University of Torino, where he also directs the MA Program in American Studies. Over the years, his books have focused on critical theory and American modernist and post-modern fiction and aesthetics. More recently, he has published on urban cultures in the U.S. – especially on gated communities and themed environments – on American religion and on the British Invasion of American popular music. He is currently working on a book-length study of the contemporary U.S. South-West.

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