The Post-Utopian Imagination: American Culture in the Long 1950s

by M. Keith Booker

In America, the long 1950s were marked by an intense skepticism toward utopian alternatives to the existing capitalist order. This skepticism was closely related to the climate of the Cold War, in which the demonization of socialism contributed to a dismissal of all alternatives to capitalism. This book studies how American novels and films of the long 1950s reflect the loss of the utopian imagination and mirror the growing concern that capitalism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313321655
• ISBN13: 9780313321658
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.5"