American Culture and Society since the 1930s

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
The Legacy of the Thirties....Pages 1-7
Daniel Bell and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism....Pages 8-16
The Foundations of Anglo-American Literary Theory....Pages 17-23
From Southern Agrarianism to Criticism Inc.....Pages 24-40
The Debate on Mass Culture....Pages 41-58
Robert Warshow and the Legacy of the 1930s....Pages 59-66
T. S. Eliot and Mass Society....Pages 67-76
The Frankfurt School: Marxism, Fascism and Mass Culture....Pages 77-88
Herbert Marcuse: from Affirmation to Liberation....Pages 89-104
The Lonely Crowd: David Riesman and American Society....Pages 105-123
Marshall Mcluhan: The Modernism of the Mass Media....Pages 124-133
Tom Wolfe and the New Journalism....Pages 134-149
Norman Mailer and Mass America....Pages 150-170
Coming to Terms with Hollywood: From Mass to Auteur Theory....Pages 171-187
The Politics and Aesthetics of Modernism....Pages 188-202
Susan Sontag: Against Interpretation....Pages 203-214
Back Matter....Pages 215-241