Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942

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Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942
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Ralston Crawford, Tour of Inspection, Bikini, 1946
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Jackson Pollock, Convergence, 1952
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Jackson Pollock, No. 1, 1949
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Jackson Pollock, No. 1, 1950
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Jackson Pollock, No. 31, 1950
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Jackson Pollock, Blue Poles, 1952
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Jackson Pollock, No. 8, 1949
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Jackson Pollock, No. 8 (detail), 1949
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William Garnett, Grading, Lakewood, California,
1950
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William Garnett, Trenching, Lakewood, California,
1950
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William Garnett, Foundations and Slabs, Lakewood,
California, 1950
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William Garnett, Framing, Lakewood, California,
1950
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William Garnett, Finished Housing, Lakewood,
California, 1950
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The Fly, 1958
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Them, 1954
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Outer Space Anxieties

• Sputnik, 1957

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Horror Films, the Atom Bomb, and the Environment

• Common themes in 1950s horror films?

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Dissent and Nonconformity Women, Domesticity,
and Work Not June Cleaver

• Conventional Message Domesticity Appropriate
  Gender Roles Safety National Security The
  Homeland
• Contestation of Conventions
• Domestic role conformist or empowering? using
  maternal role to protest Civil Defense Drills in
  NYC
• Working outside the home
• Women in Civil Rights Movement
• Beat women, bad girls

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Dissent The Beats

• Playful, tongue-in-cheek style
• Using popular culture, consumer culture, and
  elite culture symbols and language in subversive
  ways
• Subversive politics, sexuality, lifestyles
• Kerouac, On the Road
• Ginsberg, Howl
• Ferlinghetti, I Am Waiting Sometime During
  Eternity

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Sometime During Eternity,
1958

• Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Sometime During
  Eternity" (1958)
• Sometime during eternity
• some guys show up
• and one of them
• who shows up real late
• is a kind of carpenter
• from some square-type place
• like Galilee
• and he starts wailing
• and claiming he is hip
• to who made heaven
• and earth
• and that the cat
• who really laid it on us
• is his Dad

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Ferlinghetti (cont.)

• And moreover
• he adds
• It's all write down
• on some scroll-type parchments
• which some henchmen
• leave lying around the Dead Sea somewheres
• a long time ago
• and which you won't even find
• for a coupla thousand years or so
• or at least for
• nineteen hundred and fortyseven
• of them
• to be exact
• and even then
• nobody really believes them
• or me
• for that matter

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Ferlinghetti (cont.)

• You're hot
• they tell him
• And they cool him
• They stretch him on the Tree to cool
• And everybody after that
• is always making models
• of this Tree
• with Him hung up
• and always crooning His name
• and calling Him to come down
• and sit in
• on their combo
• as if he is the king cat
• who's got to blow
• or they can't quite make it
• Only he don't come down
• from His Tree

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Ferlinghetti (cont.)

• Him just hang there
• on His Tree
• looking real Petered out
• and real cool
• and also
• according to a roundup
• of late world news
• from the usual unreliable sources
• real dead

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Conclusions

• Total conformity?

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Conclusions (cont.)