Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 266 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0252032993
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0252075048
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0252092813
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9780252032998
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9780252075049
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9780252092817
Series Statement:
The history of communication
Content:
As a counterpart to research on the 1930s that has focused on liberal and radical writers calling for social revolution, Welky offers this study of how mainstream culture shaped and disseminated a message affirming conservative middle-class values and assuring its readers that holding to these values would get them through hard times. Through analysis of the era's most popular newspaper stories, magazines, and books, Welky examines how voices both outside and within the media debated the purposes of literature and the meaning of cultural literacy in a mass democracy
Content:
Introduction: "A time not to rock the boat" -- Part One: Newspapers -- The Press encounters the New Deal -- Kidnapping America's child -- Olympic feats of Americanism -- The Gumps: America's comic-strip family -- Part Two: Magazines -- How to slant a magazine -- Life, the war, and everything -- Defining womanhood in the Ladies' Home Journal -- Patriot number one, the man of steel -- Part Three: Books -- Mainstreaming the book industry -- Finding security in best sellers -- Ellery Queen restores order -- Gone with the wind, but not forgotten -- Conclusion: "Everything was better in America
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-250) and index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252032998
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0252032993
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252075049
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0252075048
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Welky, David Everything was better in America Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2008
Language:
English
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