The Origins of Cool in Postwar America
by Dinerstein, Joel
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0226152650
- ISBN 13
- 9780226152653
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About This Item
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 541 pages. b&w illustrations. As Joel Dinerstein reveals in this book, cool began as a stylish defiance of racism, a challenge to suppressed sexuality, a philosophy of individual rebellion, and a youthful search for social change. Through portraits of iconic figures, Dinerstein illuminates the cultural connections and artistic innovations among Lester Young, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Marlon Brando, and James Dean, among others. We eavesdrop on conversations among John-Paul Sartre, Simone De Beauvoir, and Miles Davis, and on a forgotten debate between Lorraine Hansberry and Norman Mailer over the 'white negro' and Black cool. We come to understand how the cool worlds of Beat writers and Method actors emerged from the intersections of film noir, jazz, and existentialism. Clean copy. Record # 383663
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 383663
- Title
- The Origins of Cool in Postwar America
- Author
- Dinerstein, Joel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0226152650
- ISBN 13
- 9780226152653
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 2017
- Keywords
- Social Sciences, Sociology, , .
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