Title: Realism and the birth of the modern United States
First published: 1996
Description: This book offers an interdisciplinary view of American culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using the conventions of historical study, Stanley Corkin draws out the ways in which the works of writers and filmmakers from 1885 to 1925 shaped and were shaped by the business, politics, and social life of the period.

Corkin traces the entrance of the United States into the modern age by considering the historical dimension of cinema and literary aesthetics: first of realism, then naturalism, and finally modernism.
Subjects: Motion pictures, Realism in literature, Motion pictures and literature, History and criticism, Realism in motion pictures, Civilization, American fiction, History, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Motion pictures, united states, United states, civilization, 20th century, Culture in motion pictures, Film, Literatur, Realisme (letterkunde), Filmkunst, Letterkunde, Realismus, Kultur
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS374.R37 C67 1996