1. Cracks in the Picture Window (Tindall, Shi)

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

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

4. 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.”

5. 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

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

7. 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