The immediate experience; movies, comics, theatre & other aspects of popular culture.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1962.Edition: [1st ed.]Description: 282 p. 22 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.U6 W34
Contents:
Editor's foreword -- Introduction / Lionel Trilling -- Author's preface -- Part 1: American Popular Culture: -- Legacy of the 30's -- Woofed with dreams -- Clifford Odets: poet of the Jewish middle class -- Idealism of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg -- Paul, the horror comics, and Dr Wertham -- E B White and the New Yorker -- Old man gone -- Part 2: American Movies: -- Gangster as tragic hero -- Movie chronicle: Westerner -- Anatomy of falsehood -- Father and son-and the FBI -- Movie camera and the American -- Liberal conscience in The Crucible -- Part 3: Charles Chaplin: -- Monsieur Verdoux -- Feeling of sad dignity -- Part 4: Art Film: -- Flight from Europe -- Paisan -- Day of Wrath: enclosed image -- Re-viewing the Russian movies.
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Editor's foreword -- Introduction / Lionel Trilling -- Author's preface -- Part 1: American Popular Culture: -- Legacy of the 30's -- Woofed with dreams -- Clifford Odets: poet of the Jewish middle class -- Idealism of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg -- Paul, the horror comics, and Dr Wertham -- E B White and the New Yorker -- Old man gone -- Part 2: American Movies: -- Gangster as tragic hero -- Movie chronicle: Westerner -- Anatomy of falsehood -- Father and son-and the FBI -- Movie camera and the American -- Liberal conscience in The Crucible -- Part 3: Charles Chaplin: -- Monsieur Verdoux -- Feeling of sad dignity -- Part 4: Art Film: -- Flight from Europe -- Paisan -- Day of Wrath: enclosed image -- Re-viewing the Russian movies.