The cultural front
Subtitle: the laboring of American culture in the twentieth century
By: Michael Denning
Edition: [2010 ed.].
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9781844674640
Subjects: Popular culture; History; American Arts; Civilization; Intellectual life
Notes: "Paperback updated with a new afterword ... 2010"--T, p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The left and American culture. Waiting for Lefty; title: Anatomy of the cultural front. Marching on May Day. Ballads for Americans; title: Formations of the cultural front. The decline and fall of the Lincoln republic. "The literary class war" : rethinking proletarian literature. "The tenement thinking". Grapes of wrath : "The art and science of migratin'". Labor on review : the popular front musical theater. Cabaret blues. The politics of magic : Orson Welles's allegories of anti-fascism. "Who's afraid of Big Bad Walt?" : Disney's radical cartoonists. American culture and socialist theory; title: Conclusions, The old left : eleven outlined epitaphs; title: The success and failure of the cultural front.