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"Visions of Belonging explores how beloved and still-remembered family stories - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, I Remember Mama, Gentleman's Agreement, Death of a Salesman, Marty, and A Raisin in the Sun - entered the popular imagination and shaped collective dreams in the postwar years and into the 1950s. These stories helped define widely shared conceptions of who counted as representative Americans and who could be recognized as belonging." "The book listens in as white and black authors and directors, readers and viewers reveal divergent, emotionally textured, and politically charged social visions. Their diverse perspectives provide a point of entry into an extraordinary time when the possibilities for social transformation seemed boundless. But changes were also fiercely contested, especially as the war's culture of unity receded in the resurgence of cold war anticommunism and demands for racial equality were met with intensifying white resistance. Judith E. Smith traces the cultural trajectory of these family stories as they circulated widely in bestselling paperbacks, hit movies, and popular drama on stage, radio, and television."--BOOK JACKET.
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Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960 (Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives)
April 24, 2006, Columbia University Press
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Visions of belonging: family stories, popular culture, and postwar democracy, 1940-1960
2004, Columbia University Press
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"IN THEIR EFFORTS TO ATTRACT THE WIDEST POSSIBLE AUDIENCE, THE PLANners of the 1940 New York World's Fair hired an actor as "official greeter," someone who would personify a figure made familiar by advertising, radio, film, and popular fiction."
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