The Cultural Front charts the extraordinary upsurge of cultural activity and theory in America that began during the Great Depression and embraced Disney animators and proletarian novelists alike, alongside Orson Welles, Duke Ellington, John Dos Passos, C. L. R James and Billie Holiday. Spawned by the Popular Front of the Communist Party, it grew to encompass virtually every aspect of high and popular art in the US, instigating one of the most culturally rich and exciting periods in American history.

A panoramic history of the culture of Depression-era America and the Popular Front

About the Author
Michael Denning is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and the co-director of Yale's Initiative on Labor and Culture. He is the author of Culture in the Age of Three Worlds; The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century; Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America; and Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller. He coordinates the Working Group on Globalization and Culture, whose collective work includes "Going into Debt," published online in Social Text's Periscope, and "Spaces and Times of Occupation," published in Transforming Anthropology. In 2014, he received the Bode-Pearson lifetime achievement award from the American Studies Association.

Reviews
A truly wonderful piece of history. * The Progressive *
As fresh a synthesis of the distinctive culture of the 1930s and 1940s as you are likely to find anywhere. * Times Literary Supplement *
An immense achievement ... the most important book yet written on American culture in the age of the CIO. * Journal of American History *



Book Information
ISBN 9781844674640
Author Michael Denning
Format Paperback
Page Count 616
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 934g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm * 46mm