Containing America
Subtitle: cultural production and consumption in Fifties America
By: edited by Nathan Abrams and Julie Hughes.
Contributors: Abrams, Nathan.; Hughes, Julie.
Publisher: University of Birmingham Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Birmingham, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Cold War -- Social aspects -- United States; Mass media -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
Description: "The postwar period in America witnessed a tremendous consumer boom that introduced a thousands of new items into the mass market. The contributors to Containing America challenge our conceptions of Cold War culture by examining a range of such products - clothes, food, television, magazines, radio, and other forms of entertainment - in order to shed light on how Cold War discourses actually influenced the practices of ordinary behaviour. Their essays address very different sectors of American society - in terms of race, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender - thus emphasising the multiplicity, diversity, and differing nature of the voices that emerged in cultural production and consumption during the 1950s. Containing America points out directions for further research and provides a fresh approach for scholars, students, and others interested in the culture of the Cold War of the 1950s."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.