The Cultural Front by Michael Denning

The Cultural Front by Michael Denning

The Cultural Front charts the extraordinary upsurge of cultural activity and theory in America that began during the Great Depression and embraced Disney animators and proletarian novelists alike, alongside Orson Welles, Duke Ellington, John Dos Passos, C. L. R James and Billie Holiday. Spawned by the Popular Front of the Communist Party, it grew to encompass virtually every aspect of high and popular art in the US, instigating one of the most culturally rich and exciting periods in American history.

A truly wonderful piece of history* The Progressive *
As fresh a synthesis of the distinctive culture of the 1930s and 1940s as you are likely to find anywhere. * Times Literary Supplement *
An immense achievement ... the most important book yet written on American culture in the age of the CIO. * Journal of American History *

Michael Denning is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and the co-director of Yale's Initiative on Labor and Culture. He is the author of Culture in the Age of Three Worlds; The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century; Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America; and Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller. He coordinates the Working Group on Globalization and Culture, whose collective work includes "Going into Debt," published online in Social Text's Periscope, and "Spaces and Times of Occupation," published in Transforming Anthropology. In 2014, he received the Bode-Pearson lifetime achievement award from the American Studies Association.

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ISBN 13	9781844674640
ISBN 10	1844674649
Title	The Cultural Front
Author	Michael Denning
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Verso Books
Year published	2011-01-04
Number of pages	616
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