Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920-1950 brings together important new scholarship focused on J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and its institutional presence in shaping and directing American print, film, and art culture. From Harlem to Hollywood, Hoover and his bureau workers were bent on decontaminating America's creativity and this collection looks at the writers and artists who were tagged, tracked, and in some cases, trapped by the FBI. Contributors detail the threatening aspects of political power and critique the very historiography of modernism, acknowledging that modernism was on trial during those years.
| ISBN: | 9781349370764 |
| Publication date: | 12th December 2008 |
| Author: | C Culleton |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 269 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary theory Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Cultural studies Literature: history and criticism |
Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI, 1920-1950 brings together important new scholarship focused on J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and its institutional presence in shaping and directing American print, film, and art culture. From Harlem to Hollywood, Hoover and his bureau workers were bent on decontaminating America's creativity and this collection looks at the writers and artists who were tagged, tracked, and in some cases, trapped by the FBI. Contributors detail the threatening aspects of political power and critique the very historiography of modernism, acknowledging that modernism was on trial during those years.
Modernism on File features in the following genres: Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Cultural studies, Literature: history and criticism
Modernism on File is available in Paperback
Modernism on File was written by C Culleton and published by Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan US
Modernism on File has 269 pages
£40.49