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This book is a collective biography of the places that harbored beatniks, blabbermouths, hipsters, playboys, and partisans who altered the shape of postwar liberal politics and culture. Throughout this period, Duncan argues, nightspots were crucial—albeit informal—institutions of the American democratic public sphere. Amid the Red Scare’s repressive politics, the urban underground of New York and San Francisco acted as both a fallout shelter for left-wingers and a laboratory for social experimentation.   Touching on literary figures from Norman Mailer and Amiri Baraka to Susan Sontag as well as performers ranging from Dave Brubeck to Maya Angelou to Lenny Bruce, The Rebel Café profiles hot spots such as the Village Vanguard, the hungry i, the Black Cat Cafe, and the White Horse Tavern. Ultimately, the book provides a deeper view of 1950s America, not simply as the black-and-white precursor to the Technicolor flamboyance of the sixties but as a rich period of artistic expression and identity formation that blended cultural production and politics.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49731688038673,"sku":"NGR9781421426334","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1421426331.jpg?v=1750714313"},{"product_id":"myths-of-masculinity-and-american-film-book-stephen-r-duncan-9781032970677","title":"Myths of Masculinity and American Film","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMyths of Masculinity and American Film \u003c\/i\u003eexamines ideologies of white American manhood that permeated US culture between 1974 and 2016—the period in which the boys of Generation X grew into adulthood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen R. Duncan argues that the mass media of movies and television, along with some popular novels, music, and certain newsworthy events, can help reveal these ideologies—for good and for ill—as they dramatically changed in the wake of the social movements of the 1960s and early 1970s. Tracing how \"presidential patriarchy\" and cinematic representations of white manhood evolved in these decades, the book explores the resulting reinforced ethos of masculine individualism that underpinned popular support for Trumpism by 2016. It demonstrates that the key that unlocks the connections between culture and politics is a discourse around patriarchy that is shared by films of this period and popular perceptions of presidents, from Nixon, Carter, and Reagan, to Bush, Clinton, and Obama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of interest to students and scholars of US media and cultural history, American Studies, and gender studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52725658222865,"sku":"NGR9781032970677","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53497995854097,"sku":"NLS9781032970677","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781032970677.jpg?v=1774640158"},{"product_id":"myths-of-masculinity-and-american-film-book-stephen-r-duncan-9781032971544","title":"Myths of Masculinity and American Film","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMyths of Masculinity and American Film \u003c\/i\u003eexamines ideologies of white American manhood that permeated US culture between 1974 and 2016—the period in which the boys of Generation X grew into adulthood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen R. 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