Cracks in the Picture Window (Tindall, Shi)

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Cracks in the Picture Window (Tindall, Shi)

What is there to take issue with? Questioning: Revolutionary Road (2009/1961)

Alienation and Liberation: Youth Culture Rock and Roll Summertime Blues Delinquency

The Lonely Crowd Desolate Postwar, urban industrial life Galbraith in The Affluent Society: “The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence to them.”

Alienation and Liberation: The Arts The Stage—Westside Story The Novel—Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies Painting—Hopper, early Warhol; neo- Dada vs. Abstract Expressionists The Beats—Ginsberg, Karouac, Fehrlingetti

Allen Ginsberg and the Beats City Lights Books, SF “Howl” Read/listen to the voice of a disillusioned faction

Mid1960s: rebellion against corporate conformity and consumerism Baby Boomers became the leaders of 1960s rebellion… Overlapping and coinciding movements: Anti-war, Free-Speech, Civil Rights

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