Cold War Culture and American Society, Revised Edition provides a broad survey of American literature, films, TV, theater, music, journalism, and related areas during the Cold War period. This entertaining and enjoyable guide explores the popular arts and media in an accessible format, highlighting the most significant or characteristic persons and topics of the era. Subjects are presented in their social and cultural context; here, readers will learn how Cold War sensibilities shaped, and continue to shape, living culture. In hundreds of A-to-Z entries, Cold War Culture and American Society provides overviews of important themes, forms, and genres as well as coverage of significant careers and individual works produced by novelists, screenwriters, journalists, directors, performers, musicians, choreographers, dancers, playwrights, poets, artists, and many others.