Ambiguous borderlands: shadow imagery in Cold War American culture

Abstract

"This book examines shadow imagery in postwar literature, television, film, photography, and popular culture"--

Contents

List of Figures, p.xi -- Acknowledgments, p. xiii -- Introduction: Shadows and Their Place in Postwar America, p.1 -- A Fascinating Anxiety: The Paradoxes of Life in the Shadow of the Bomb, p.20 -- What the Shadows Know: The Return of the Crime-Fighting Hero the Shadow in Late-1950s Literature, p.54 -- Taking Back the Shadows: Allen Ginsberg's and Jack Kerouac's Struggles to Reclaim the American Unconscious, p.91 -- The Ghost of Humanism: The Disappearing Figure in Postwar Photography, p.127 -- The Battle of Light and Dark: Chiaroscuro in Late Film Noir, p.173 -- A Journey into the Shadows: The Twilight Zone's Visual Critique of the Cold War, p.217 -- Conclusion: Adumbration, Penumbra, Foreshadowing, p.241 --