The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century

Bindas, Kenneth J.; Denning, Michael

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“….it is one of the places where socialism might be constituted" (p. 574). In the "Red Decade" of the one 1930s, the entertainment media of Popular Front artists and activists helped "labor" American popular culture (Denning 1998) and, according to historian Lizabeth Cohen (1991), this decade's mass commercial culture "did more to create an integrated working-class culture than a classless American one" (p. 357). All of this is to say, the obstacles that left media activists face are not simply a matter of resources and corporate opposition.…”

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Comparing Populist Media: From Fox News to the Young Turks, From Cable to YouTube, From Right to Left

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2022

Television & New Media

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This article compares populist media styles on US cable news and in online video. It juxtaposes the conservative cable giant Fox News with the progressive YouTube-based network the Young Turks (TYT). TYT stands as one of YouTube’s longest running and most successful “news and politics” channels on the platform. This progressive digital network has long embraced a populist anchoring style that resembles Fox News and the style of its conservative YouTube competitors. This study establishes the stylistic affinity between TYT and Fox News and then explains how it is driven by a similar commercial-economic logic that prizes “loyal” viewership and “intense” engagement above all else. Shifting from political economy to media activism, this article also chronicles TYT’s role in creating the Justice Democrats, the progressive PAC that recruited Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other “Squad” members. This article seeks to complicate the commonly held association between populism and political conservatism.

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Comparing Populist Media: From Fox News to the Young Turks, From Cable to YouTube, From Right to Left

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Giving children security: Mamie Phipps Clark and the racialization of child psychology.

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American Psychologist

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História e forma em Ragtime, The Book of Daniel e Homer & Langley, de E. L. Doctorow

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The novels by E. L. Doctorow studied here draw a critically illuminating panorama of American History in the 20 th century. In The Book of Daniel, we follow the trajectory of the American Left from the thirties up to the sixties. In Ragtime, the historical scenery is the Belle Époque and the "ragtime era", from the beginning of the century up to World War I. In Homer & Langley, the time frame is broadened to include almost the entire century -from World War I up to de eighties. In those novels, we find a dialectical relationship between the impulse to bring forth connections and represent a larger social and historical picture, and the difficulty of achieving such a project through the very language and logic of fragmentation which obstructs the making of articulations and renders representation difficult. In this work, I try to read the ambiguities and hesitations of the form in those three novels as "productive uncertainties" -potential lessons to contemporary critical thinking. formal, ele compreende a necessidade artística que cada narrativa lhe impõe e não se prende a modelos literários, procurando reinventar a forma sempre que necessário: "The novel has to constantly recreate itself by assaulting its own traditions, the form has to be abused somehow in order to be re-invented each time you write a book 9 ".Uma consequência visível dessa pesquisa formal é a falta de unidade estilística entre os romances. Embora haja na obra uma recorrência de temas e a repetição de alguns cenários, personagens e episódios, estilisticamente cada livro é único. Doctorow explica 7 Idem.8 "Thus, ironically, in our withdrawal, our nonpolitical pragmatic vision of ourselves and our calling, we writers may be expressing the general crisis of our age. Joe caminha sozinho e se constitui em observador silencioso da terra devastada que encontra. Há, no seu silêncio e na sua solidão, uma espera pelo momento de decisão e por uma reação que não se realizará no romance:I was alone in all of it, there was some faculty of being alone I was born with, in the noise of life and clatter of tenement war, my brain was alone in the silence of observation and perception and understanding, that true silence of waiting for conclusions, of waiting for everything to add up to a judgment, a decision, that silence worse than the silence of the deaf and dumb 19 .Esse "silêncio pior que o silêncio dos surdos e dos mudos" é o silêncio de quem possui a percepção da injustiça e renuncia à ação revolucionária. É essa frustração de saber e não agir que esse romance tenta figurar. Joe vai acumulando lições da falência do sonho americano ao longo de sua jornada de aprendizado. Em convívio com um grupo de "freaks" que faz da própria deficiência mercadoria para sobreviver, Joe é marcado pela história de uma moça deficiente mental que é oferecida por alguns trocados a uma fila de homens. Em seu olhar e na vida desses "freaks" de estrada, Joe reconhece um desespero que ele percebe ser a metáfora de uma agonia coletiva:There was a harmony of malformation and life that...

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The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century

Cited by 65 publications

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Comparing Populist Media: From Fox News to the Young Turks, From Cable to YouTube, From Right to Left

Comparing Populist Media: From Fox News to the Young Turks, From Cable to YouTube, From Right to Left

Giving children security: Mamie Phipps Clark and the racialization of child psychology.

História e forma em Ragtime, The Book of Daniel e Homer & Langley, de E. L. Doctorow

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