Can Cultural History Ever Be Cool?

According to Dinerstein, "cool" is an attitude and distinctive personal style that conveys authenticity, integrity, and nonconformity. [...]I learned a lot from the book he did write, which is an important contribution to the literature on American modernism and its wider impact. Press acc...

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Published in:Reviews in American history 2018-06, Vol.46 (2), p.307-313
Main Author: de Leon, Charles L. Ponce
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Culture
Film noir
Historians
World War II
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Summary:According to Dinerstein, "cool" is an attitude and distinctive personal style that conveys authenticity, integrity, and nonconformity. [...]I learned a lot from the book he did write, which is an important contribution to the literature on American modernism and its wider impact. Press accounts also faulted the federal government for not protecting cult members from Jones and other cult leaders, and blamed lawyers for working with Jones to keep government investigators at bay, thus making it impossible for family members to bring their kin home before the tragedy. In the future, alternative venues may provide an escape from the monograph-industrial complex that compels us to turn projects into books—but only if we, in our capacity as peer evaluators who decide what counts as scholarship, decide that a monograph should not be the only coin of the realm, and that our discipline needs more varied and accessible forms of communication.
ISSN:0048-7511
1080-6628
1080-6628
DOI:10.1353/rah.2018.0046