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Ambiguous borderlands : shadow imagery in Cold War American culture / Erik Mortenson.
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Mortenson, Erik, 1970-
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English
Published/Created
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2016.
©2016
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xv, 307 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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PS374.C57 M67 2016
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Subject(s)
American literature
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20th century
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History and criticism
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Metaphor in literature
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Cold War in literature
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Cold War in motion pictures
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Cold War
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Social aspects
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United States
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Politics and culture
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Cold War
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Influence
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Popular culture
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United States
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History
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20th century
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United States
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Civilization
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1945-
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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.
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ISBN
9780809334322 ((paperback))
0809334321 ((paperback))
080933433X
9780809334339
LCCN
2015025806
OCLC
922034401
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