Ambiguous borderlands : shadow imagery in Cold War American culture / Erik Mortenson.

Author
Mortenson, Erik, 1970- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2016.
  • ©2016
Description
xv, 307 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    Summary note
    "This book examines shadow imagery in postwar literature, television, film, photography, and popular culture"-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • List of Figures, p.xi
    • Acknowledgments, p. xiii
    • Introduction: Shadows and Their Place in Postwar America, p.1
    • 1. A Fascinating Anxiety: The Paradoxes of Life in the Shadow of the Bomb, p.20
    • 2. What the Shadows Know: The Return of the Crime-Fighting Hero the Shadow in Late-1950s Literature, p.54
    • 3. Taking Back the Shadows: Allen Ginsberg's and Jaek Kerouac's Struggles to Reclaim the American Unconscious, p.91
    • 4. The Ghost of Humanism: The Disappearing Figure in Postwar Photography, p.127
    • 5 The Battle of Light and Dark: Chiaroscuro in Late Film Noir, p.173
    • 6. A Journey into the Shadows: The Twilight Zone's Visual Critique of the Cold War, p.217
    • Conclusion: Adumbration, Penumbra, Foreshadowing, p.241
    • Notes, p.251
    • Bibliography, p.277
    • Index, p.295.
    ISBN
    • 9780809334322 ((paperback))
    • 0809334321 ((paperback))
    • 080933433X
    • 9780809334339
    LCCN
    2015025806
    OCLC
    922034401
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