Books in the Post*45 series

This book traces the literary legacy of the War on Poverty, showing how American writers developed an anti-formalist art that dovetailed with President Lyndon Johnson's call for more client involvement in Great Society welfare programs.

Focusing on its literary programming in particular, this study of UNESCO shines a light on the close relationship between state-backed economic development and the global postwar cultural policy establishment.

Through case studies of how mid-century American poetry used recording technologies to contest models of time being put forward by dominant media and the State, this book explores how New Left poets mobilized recording as a new form of sonic field research even while they were being subject to tape-based surveillance by the CIA and the FBI.

This book argues that recognition of the corporate studio's role as author of Hollywood motion pictures enables original interpretations of Hollywood films and provides a deeper understanding of their cultural, political, and commercial objectives.

This book presents a genealogy of postwar American poetry that considers new dimensions of ecological crisis in the era now termed the Great Acceleration.

Through fascinating case studies of people working in publishing both large and small-scale, traditional and digital, this book tells the story of how new literary work emerges and finds readers in our era of too many books.

Modern Hollywood is dominated by a handful of studios: Columbia, Disney, Fox, Paramount, Universal, and Warner Bros. Threatened by independents in the 1970s, they returned to power in the 1980s, ruled unquestioned in the 1990s, and in the new millennium are again beseiged. But in the heyday of this new classical era, the major studios movies - their stories and styles - were astonishingly precise biographies of the studios that made them. Movies became product placements for their studios, advertising them to the industry, to their employees, and to the public at large. If we want to know how studios work-how studios think-we need to watch their films closely. How closely? Maniacally so. In a wide range of examples, The Studios after the Studios explores the gaps between story and backstory in order to excavate the hidden history of Hollywood's second great studio era.

Reading across the disciplines of the mid-century university, this book uses the subculture of camp to argue that the political shift in postwar America from consensus liberalism to New Left radicalism entailed as many continuities as ruptures.

A definitive account of how and why novels preoccupied with "hip" changed the course of the Democratic Party after the Second World War.

A history of the modern sequential comic form from the late nineteenth century through today, focusing on the unique ways in which it tells stories and interacts with readers.

This book is the first comprehensive history of Grove Press, the groundbreaking publisher responsible for the end of obscenity and the assimilation of the avant-garde into the American mainstream.

A novel account of the relationship between postindustrial capitalism and postmodern culture, this book looks at American poetry and art of the last 50 years in light of the massive changes in people's working lives.

This book argues for a new understanding of twentieth and twenty-first century avant-gardes by analyzing literary and artistic communities and publishing practices of the small-circulation magazines in which avant-garde groups originally published and continue to publish their work.