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Provides an account of the dominant cultural forms of 1950s America: fiction and poetry; theatre and performance; film and television; music and radio; and the visual arts. The two core aims of this book are to chart the changing complexion of American culture in the years following World War II and to provide an investigation of 'the 1950s'.

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