. . . . . . . . . . . . "Notes from the underground : American culture beneath the Cold War consensus, 1945-1965"@en . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . "Academic theses"@en . "Notes from the underground American culture beneath the Cold War consensus, 1945-1965"@en . . . "Electronic dissertations"@en . "In the period following World War II, American culture came to be marked by a political and cultural consensus that dominated public discourse for two decades. As a crucial part of the creation of this consensus, dissident political and cultural visions, which challenged American cold war policies or the beneficence of American-style capitalism, were driven out of the realm of respectable debate. At the same time, a wide range of formerly critical voices were integrated into the consensus. But these dissenting voices, forced out of the mainstream, did not simply disappear. Rather they reappeared in new settings, primarily in the newly emerging popular cultural forms that rose up in the postwar period, especially with the advent of paperback publishing, television and the new venues for independent cinema provided by the growth of such institutions as the drive-in theater. Within these forms developed an \"underground culture\" which challenged the dominant consensus on a wide variety of fronts. This underground culture presented a much darker vision of American society than any that appeared in the dominant cultural debates in the two decades after World War II, though in the period after 1965 many of the issues first raised in the underground culture emerged into the mainstream. This study focuses on the development of this underground culture by examining the oeuvres of ten artists working in various popular cultural forms in the Cold War period: crime novelists Jim Thompson, Charles Willeford, Chester Himes and Patricia Highsmith; science fiction and fantasy writers Ray Bradbury and Charles Beaumont; independent filmmakers Samuel Fuller and Roger Corman; bestselling author Richard Condon; and television screenwriter and producer Rod Serling."@en . "History"@en . . . . . . "1900 - 1999" . .