Containing America: Cultural Production and Consumption in 50s America

by Nathan Abrams and Julie Hughes

The postwar period in America witnessed a tremendous consumer boom that introduced thousands of new items into the mass market. The contributors to Containing America challenge our conceptions of Cold War culture by examining a range of such products - clothes, food, television, magazines, radio, and other forms of entertainment - in order to shed light on how Cold War discourses actually influenced the practices of ordinary behaviour. Their essays...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1902459067
• ISBN13: 9781902459066
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.8"