Photo Essays About Asian American Women In Life Magazine 1936 To 1965

This book explores the ways in which mid-twentieth-century Life Magazine editors employed the photo-essay as a narrative art form to overcome racist stereotypes about Asian women and envision them instead as part of the American middle class.

Includes information about writers and their works, significant literary magazines and reviews, and descriptions of famous fictional people and places

'Partners in Wonder' explores our knowledge of women and science fiction between 1936 and 1965. It describes the distinctly different form of science fiction that females produced, one that was both more utopian and more empathetic than that of their male counterparts.

Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.

Poems explore a variety of themes including friendship, alienation, and art and portray life in New York City.

Shows how American painters assimilated the European influence to develop their own unique styles and explores the works of Pollock, Stella, Johns, Rothko, de Kooning, Kline, and others.

In the first book devoted exclusively to publisher Henry Luce and China, Patricia Neils provides a major reassessment of the Time Inc. mogul's views and his influence on American public opinion and foreign policy. Previous biographers and historians have depicted Luce as a fanatical anticommunist who used his pre-television media empire-the pages of Time, Life, and Fortune, radio broadcasts on March of Time, and Time Newsreels shown in theatres throughout the United States-to sway American opinion against Mao Tse Tung and Chinese communists in favor of the fascist regime of Chiang Kaishek. 1895-1925: Origins of China Images in the Life of Henry R. Luce; 1926-1936 Heroes and Bandits; 1937-1941: The Red Star and the Good Earth; 1942-1943: Our Honored Ally; 1944: The Stilwell Crisis; 1945-1946: The Vigil of a Nation; 1947-1948: Too Little, Too Late; 'Ghosts on the Roof' and Other Political Fairy Tales; 1950s: Leaning to One Side; Since 1965: The Trans-Pacific Dialogue; Bibliography; Index.