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  • A Novel Marketplace

    Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction

    by Evan Brier ...
    As television transformed American culture in the 1950s, critics feared the influence of this newly pervasive mass medium on the nation's literature. While many studies have addressed the rhetorical response of artists and intellectuals to mid-twentieth-century mass culture, the relationship between the emergence of this culture and the production of novels has gone largely unexamined.In A Novel ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Novel Competition

    American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965-1999

    by Evan Brier ...
    Series series New American Canon
    Novel Competition describes the literary and institutional struggle to make American novels matter between 1965 and 1999. As corporations took over the book business, Hollywood movies, popular music, and other forms of mass-produced culture competed with novels as never before for a form of prestige that had mostly been attached to novels in previous decades. In the context of this competition, ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • A Novel Marketplace

    Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction

    by Evan Brier ...
    As television transformed American culture in the 1950s, critics feared the influence of this newly pervasive mass medium on the nation's literature. While many studies have addressed the rhetorical response of artists and intellectuals to mid-twentieth-century mass culture, the relationship between the emergence of this culture and the production of novels has gone largely unexamined.In A Novel ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    V for Victory

    A Novel

    by Lissa Evans ...
    Narrated by Lucy Briers ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 50 min

    In this witty, charming follow-up to the acclaimed Crooked Heart, the life of lies a small time scammer and her adopted son have constructed in London becomes endangered during the tumultuous final months of World War II.It’s late 1944. Hitler’s rockets are raining down on London with vicious regularity and it’s the coldest winter in living memory. The Allies are gaining ground, but victory is ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Big Fiction

    How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature

    by Dan Sinykin ...
    Series series Literature Now
    Shortlisted, 2024 SHARP Book History Book Prize, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and PublishingIn the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat with Andy Warhol while pouring drinks in his office. By the 1970s, editors were poring over profit-and-loss statements. The electronics company RCA bought Random House in 1965, and then other ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition

    by Bill Nichols ...
    The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Documentary: Where Do I Start?" guides readers through the steps of planning and preproduction and includes an example of a project proposal for a film that went on to win awards at major festivals. Designed ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Dream of the Great American Novel

    by Lawrence Buell ...
    "Magisterial . . . make[s] you suddenly see new things in familiar books . . . brilliant analyses of a dozen or so front-runners in the Great American Novel sweepstakes." —Michael Dirda, Virginia Quarterly ReviewThe idea of "the great American novel" continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying more than 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as amateurish or ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Workshops of Empire

    Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War

    by Eric Bennett ...
    Series series New American Canon
    During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and poems, they believed, could inoculate weak minds against simplistic totalitarian ideologies, heal the spiritual wounds of global catastrophe, and just maybe prevent the like from happening again. As the Cold War ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Middlemen

    Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction

    by Laura B. McGrath ...
    A revealing account of how agents have shaped book publishing and the literary canon from the 1950s to todayMiddlemen rewrites literary history from the perspective of one of its most important but least visible figures: the literary agent. Chronicling the story of agents in the United States from the 1950s to today, Laura McGrath uncovers their critical role in the making of American literature. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Projections

    Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling

    by Jared Gardner ...
    Series series Post*45
    When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form. And the visibility of comics continues to increase, with alternative cartoonists now published by major presses and more comics-based films arriving on the screen each year.Projections argues that the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Comics Versus Art

    by Bart Beaty ...
    On the surface, the relationship between comics and the ‘high’ arts once seemed simple; comic books and strips could be mined for inspiration, but were not themselves considered legitimate art objects. Though this traditional distinction has begun to erode, the worlds of comics and art continue to occupy vastly different social spaces.Comics Versus Art examines the relationship between comics and ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Book Business

    by Jason Epstein ...
    "An irresistible book about Grub Street, authorship and the literary marketplace."—Washington Post Book WorldJason Epstein has led arguably the most creative career in book publishing during the past half-century. He founded Anchor Books and launched the quality paperback revolution, cofounded the New York Review of Books, and created of the Library of America, the prestigious publisher of ... Read more

    $15.09 USD