Ambiguous borderlands : shadow imagery in Cold War American culture / Erik Mortenson.

"This book examines shadow imagery in postwar literature, television, film, photography, and popular culture"--

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Mortenson, Erik, 1970- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2016]
Subjects:	American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Metaphor in literature. Cold War in literature. Cold War in motion pictures. Cold War > Social aspects > United States. Politics and culture > United States > History > 20th century. Cold War > Influence. United States > Civilization > 1945- Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century. American literature. Civilization. Cold War (1945-1989) in literature. Cold War (1945-1989) in motion pictures. Politics and culture. Popular culture. Social aspects. War > Influence. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Figures list; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Shadows and Their Place in Postwar America; 1. A FASCINATING ANXIETY: The Paradoxes of Life in the Shadow of the Bomb; 2. WHAT THE SHADOWS KNOW: The Return of the Crime-Fighting Hero the Shadow in Late-1950s Literature; 3. TAKING BACK THE SHADOWS: Allen Ginsberg's and Jack Kerouac's Struggles to Reclaim the American Unconscious; 4. THE GHOST OF HUMANISM: The Disappearing Figure in Postwar Photography; 5. THE BATTLE OF LIGHT AND DARK: Chiaroscuro in Late Film Noir.
6. A JOURNEY INTO THE SHADOWS: The Twilight Zone's Visual Critique of the Cold WarCONCLUSION: Adumbration, Penumbra, Foreshadowing; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author; Back Cover.

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