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The first issue of Hollywood Quarterly, in October 1945, marked the appearance of the most significant, successful, and regularly published journal of its kind in the United States. For its entire life, the Quarterly held to the leftist utopianism of its founders, several of whom would later be blacklisted. The journal attracted a collection of writers unmatched in North American film studies for the heterogeneity of their intellectual and practical concerns: from film, radio, and television industry workers to academics; from Sam Goldwyn, Edith Head, and Chuck Jones to Theodor Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer. For this volume, Eric Smoodin and Ann Martin have selected essays that reflect the astonishing eclecticism of the journal, with sections on animation, the avant-garde, and documentary to go along with a representative sampling of articles about feature-length narrative films. They have also included articles on radio and television, reflecting the contents of just about every issue of the journal and exemplifying the extraordinary moment in film and media studies that Hollywood Quarterly captured and helped to create. In 1951, Hollywood Quarterly was renamed the Quarterly of Film, Radio, and Television, and in 1958 it was replaced by Film Quarterly, which is still published by the University of California Press. During those first twelve years, the Quarterly maintained an intelligent, sophisticated, and critical interest in all the major entertainment media, not just film, and in issue after issue insisted on the importance of both aesthetic and sociological methodologies for studying popular culture, and on the political significance of the mass media.

Motion pictures --- Cinéma --- History --- Social aspects --- Histoire --- Aspect social --- Culture in motion pictures. --- History. --- 20th century. --- academics. --- anthology. --- avant garde film. --- discussion books. --- documentary. --- entertainment. --- essay collection. --- film culture. --- film historians. --- film journalism. --- film scholars. --- film students. --- film studies. --- historical. --- hollywood. --- intellectual perspective. --- journal archives. --- leftist utopianism. --- mass media. --- media studies. --- narrative films. --- nonfiction. --- pop culture. --- postwar america. --- retrospective. --- sociological. --- textbooks. --- united states.

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Americans believe strongly in the socially transformative power of education, and the idea that we can challenge racial injustice by reducing white prejudice has long been a core component of this faith. How did we get here? In this first-rate intellectual history, Leah N. Gordon jumps into this and other big questions about race, power, and social justice. To answer these questions, From Power to Prejudice examines American academia-both black and white-in the 1940s and '50s. Gordon presents four competing visions of "the race problem" and documents how an individualistic paradigm, which presented white attitudes as the source of racial injustice, gained traction. A number of factors, Gordon shows, explain racial individualism's postwar influence: individuals were easier to measure than social forces; psychology was well funded; studying political economy was difficult amid McCarthyism; and individualism was useful in legal attacks on segregation. Highlighting vigorous midcentury debate over the meanings of racial justice and equality, From Power to Prejudice reveals how one particular vision of social justice won out among many contenders.

Race discrimination --- Prejudices --- History --- United States --- Race relations --- african american studies, education policy, cultural anthropology, discrimination, racism, race relations, racial issues, united states, 20th century, injustice, white prejudice, intellectual history, social justice, academia, individualism, postwar america, psychology, mccarthyism, segregation, society, teachers, students, public schools, college, power dynamics.

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Food consumption is a significant and complex social activity-and what a society chooses to feed its children reveals much about its tastes and ideas regarding health. In this groundbreaking historical work, Amy Bentley explores how the invention of commercial baby food shaped American notions of infancy and influenced the evolution of parental and pediatric care. Until the late nineteenth century, infants were almost exclusively fed breast milk. But over the course of a few short decades, Americans began feeding their babies formula and solid foods, frequently as early as a few weeks after birth. By the 1950's, commercial baby food had become emblematic of all things modern in postwar America. Little jars of baby food were thought to resolve a multitude of problems in the domestic sphere: they reduced parental anxieties about nutrition and health; they made caretakers feel empowered; and they offered women entering the workforce an irresistible convenience. But these baby food products laden with sugar, salt, and starch also became a gateway to the industrialized diet that blossomed during this period. Today, baby food continues to be shaped by medical, commercial, and parenting trends. Baby food producers now contend with health and nutrition problems as well as the rise of alternative food movements. All of this matters because, as the author suggests, it's during infancy that American palates become acclimated to tastes and textures, including those of highly processed, minimally nutritious, and calorie-dense industrial food products.

Infants --- Babies --- Infancy --- Children --- Nutrition --- History. --- alternative food movements. --- american diet. --- american food. --- babies. --- baby food. --- breast milk. --- california studies in food and culture series. --- commercial baby food. --- commercial foods. --- domestic space. --- family. --- food consumption. --- food. --- formula. --- gastronomy. --- health. --- highly processed foods. --- history. --- industrial food products. --- industrialized diet. --- infancy. --- mothering. --- nutrition and health. --- parental care. --- parenthood. --- parenting trends. --- pediatric care. --- postwar america. --- social activity. --- social norms. --- solid foods. --- united states of america.

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Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly detailed cultural history of L.A. from 1940 to 1970 traces the rise of a new suburban consciousness adopted by a generation of migrants who abandoned older American cities for Southern California's booming urban region. Eric Avila explores expressions of this new "white identity" in popular culture with provocative discussions of Hollywood and film noir, Dodger Stadium, Disneyland, and L.A.'s renowned freeways. These institutions not only mirrored this new culture of suburban whiteness and helped shape it, but also, as Avila argues, reveal the profound relationship between the increasingly fragmented urban landscape of Los Angeles and the rise of a new political outlook that rejected the tenets of New Deal liberalism and anticipated the emergence of the New Right. Avila examines disparate manifestations of popular culture in architecture, art, music, and more to illustrate the unfolding urban dynamics of postwar Los Angeles. He also synthesizes important currents of new research in urban history, cultural studies, and critical race theory, weaving a textured narrative about the interplay of space, cultural representation, and identity amid the westward shift of capital and culture in postwar America.

Popular culture --- Public spaces --- White people --- Suburban life --- Suburban life in popular culture --- Migration, Internal --- African Americans --- City and town life --- History --- Race identity --- Social conditions --- Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Civilization --- Race relations. --- 20th century. --- art and architecture. --- california history. --- california. --- conservative right. --- cultural history. --- cultural representation. --- demographic studies. --- disneyland. --- film noir. --- hollywood. --- liberalism. --- los angeles. --- modern history. --- new deal. --- new right. --- nonfiction. --- popular culture. --- postwar america. --- regional history. --- southern california. --- suburban culture. --- suburban landscape. --- suburbs. --- united states. --- urban landscape. --- us history. --- white flight. --- white identity. --- world war ii. --- wwii. --- Whites

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What, where, and when is jazz? To most of us jazz means small combos, made up mostly of men, performing improvisationally in urban club venues. But jazz has been through many changes in the decades since World War II, emerging in unexpected places and incorporating a wide range of new styles. In this engrossing new book, David Ake expands on the discussion he began in Jazz Cultures, lending his engaging, thoughtful, and stimulating perspective to post-1940's jazz. Ake investigates such issues as improvisational analysis, pedagogy, American exceptionalism, and sense of place in jazz. He uses provocative case studies to illustrate how some of the values ascribed to the postwar jazz culture are reflected in and fundamentally shaped by aspects of sound, location, and time.

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