Twentieth-Century America

The multi-volume Longman literature in English series aims to provide students of literature with a critical introduction to the major genres in their historical and cultural context. This book looks at cinema, painting and architecture in 20th-century America, as well as the culture of politics.

Douglas Tallack is Professor of American Studies at the University of Leicester, UK.

Part 1: The politics of culture Cinema; Painting; Architecture. Part 2: The culture of politics From Victorianism to modernism; From the old left to the new left; America at mid-century; Black culture and politics; Feminism Conclusion: postmodernity