Post•45 Series

21 primary works • 21 total works
Post•45 publishes groundbreaking work on US culture from the Second World War to the present. Books in this series aim to interrogate rather than reproduce critical orthodoxies—to ask basic questions about how to read and categorize postwar culture. To that end, the series focuses on American literature and culture, but also on work that takes seri…
America's Corporate Art: The Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion Pictures
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3.00 · 5 Ratings · published 2011 · 3 editions
Contrary to theories of single person authorship, …

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    Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling
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    3.89     · 36 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2012 · 4 editions
    When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize …

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    Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party
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    3.67     · 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 5 editions
    Hip Figures dramatically alters our understanding …

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    Grove Press, the Evergreen Review, and the Incorporation of the Avant-Garde
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    4.16     · 19 Ratings · 5 Reviews · published 2013 · 3 editions
    Responsible for such landmark publications as Lady…

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    Camp Sites: Sex, Politics, and Academic Style in Postwar America
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    5.00     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2013 · 5 editions
    Reading across the disciplines of the mid-century …

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    The Studios after the Studios: Neoclassical Hollywood (1970-2010)
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    4.00     · 3 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2015 · 3 editions
    Modern Hollywood is dominated by a handful of Colu…

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    Making Literature Now
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    3.60     · 20 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 3 editions
    How does new writing emerge and find readers today…

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    Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture
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    4.30     · 23 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2016 · 4 editions
    Dead Pledges is the first book to explore the ways…

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    The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization
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    3.67     · 12 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 3 editions
    A novel account of the relationship between postin…

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    Remainders: American Poetry at Nature's End
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    4.42     · 19 Ratings · 3 Reviews · 2 editions
    A literary history of the Great Acceleration, Rema…

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    Maximum Feasible Participation: American Literature and the War on Poverty
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    4.33     · 3 Ratings · 2 editions
    This book traces American writers' contributions a…

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    Narrowcast: Poetry and Audio Research
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · 3 editions
    Narrowcast explores how mid-century American poets…

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    Vicious Circuits: Korea’s IMF Cinema and the End of the American Century
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    4.25     · 4 Ratings · 3 editions
    In December of 1997, the International Monetary Fu…

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    Categorically Famous: Literary Celebrity and Sexual Liberation in 1960s America
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    3.75     · 4 Ratings · 4 editions
    The first sustained study of the relations between…

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    Provisional Avant-Gardes: Little Magazine Communities from Dada to Digital
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    4.17     · 6 Ratings · 3 editions
    What would it mean to be avant-garde today? Arguin…

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    UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary
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    4.44     · 9 Ratings · 3 Reviews · 3 editions
    A case study of one of the most important global i…

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    A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific
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    4.36     · 11 Ratings · 6 Reviews · 3 editions
    A Violent Peace offers a radical cultural account …

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    The Novel and the New Ethics
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    3.89     · 9 Ratings · 3 editions
    For a generation of contemporary Anglo-American no…

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    Incremental Realism: Postwar American Fiction, Happiness, and Welfare-State Liberalism
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    0.00     · 3 editions
    The postwar US political imagination coalesced aro…

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    Crisis Style: The Aesthetics of Repair
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    4.20     · 5 Ratings · 3 editions
    In this expansive and provocative new work, Michae…

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    Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of U.S. Literature
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    5.00     · 3 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 3 editions
    "With Reading the Obscene, Jordan Carroll reveals …

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