Michael Denning, a leading cultural historian, analyses the historical role of culture during the period that the first, second and third world rose, and then merged into one. This is a major study by a respected cultural historian.
A panoramic history of the culture of Depression-era America and the Popular Front.
This title tracks the spy thriller from John Buchanan to Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carré, and shows how... Læs mere
A study of American popular fiction and working-class culture, combining Marxist literary theory with American labour history. The text explores what happened when, in the 19th century, working people began to read cheap novels and the "fiction question" became a class question.
A radically new reading of the origins of recorded music