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 Index Adamic, Louis, 133–34 Adorno, Theodor, 173, 175, 182; Aesthetic Theory, 190; Composing for the Films, 193n10; on Heidegger, 180; and Horkheimer, 178, 192n7, 193n9; Negative Dialectics, 180; “The Radio Symphony,” 178; “Social Critique of Radio Music,” 179 African Americans, 120–25 Agamben, Giorgio, 182 Agee, James, ix; “Pseudo-Folk,” 193n9; and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, x, 61 Agricultural Adjustment Act, 117n16 Alaimo, Stacy, 18, 105, 107 American Federation of Labor, 164 American Legion, 164 American Mercury, 27 American Writers’ Congress, 132–33 Anderson, Maxwell, 18 Anti-Tipping Society of America, 5 Anvil, 132, 156–57 Bailey, Liberty Hyde, 116n1 Baker, Christina Looper, 35 Barnard, Rita, 172–73, 188, 192n7, 194n16 Barthes, Roland, 135, 141 Bartram, John and William, 85, 94 Bataille, George, 70 Baudelaire, Charles, 45 Bell, Thomas: All Brides Are Beautiful, 136–42 Benjamin, Walter, 45, 58n15, 60n24, 75; “The Work of Art,” 50 Benson, Susan Porter, 7 Bevilacqua, Winifred, 22 Bourdieu, Pierre, 135–36, 138, 150n4 Bourke-White, Margaret: You Have Seen Their Faces, x Bozzolla, Angelo. See Tisdall, Caroline, and Angelo Bozzolla Buck-Morss, Susan, 46 Burgum, Edwin Berry, 165–66 Burke, Kenneth, 78n1, 132; Permanence and Change, 149–50 Cain, James M., 192n6; Mildred Pierce, 1–15; The Postman Always Rings Twice, 6–8, 175–76; Serenade, 6 Caldwell, Erskine: God’s Little Acre, 60n26; You Have Seen Their Faces, x Calmer, Alan, 161–63, 169 Calverton, V. F., 145 Cannon, Grant, 110 Cantwell, Robert: Land of Plenty, 164 Carby, Hazel, 148 Casey, Janet Galligani, 45, 55–56, 57n3 Catholicism, 70–71 Chandler, Raymond, 192n6 Coiner, Constance, 16 Coleman, Louis: Lumber, 164 colonialism, 126–27 Commercial Bribery and Tipping Review, 5 Commission on Country Life, 97–98 communism, 46, 51, 189 Communist Party (USA), 133, 154, 164; and women, 37 Composers’ Collective, 171n6 Congress of Industrial Organizations, 164 Conroy, Jack, 132–33; The Disinherited, 61, 134–35, 149n2 Cook, Pam, 1 Cook, Sylvia Jenkins, 116 Cooper, James Fenimore: The Last of the Mohicans, 126 Country Life Movement, 97–99 Cowell, Henry, 171n6 Cowley, Malcolm, 77 The Cradle Will Rock, 92 Daily Worker, 36 Dargan, Olive Tilford, 97 de Certeau, Michel, 150n6 Deloria, Philip, 125–26 Denning, Michael, ix, 78n1, 150n5 di Donato, Pietro: Christ in Concrete, 63–71 Dickstein, Morris, ix Dimock, Wai Chee, 39, 41–42, 52 Dingley, Robert, 14n3 Dos Passos, John, 87, 132; U.S.A., xi, 55–56, 81–82, 176 Dream World, 157 Dreiser, Theodore, 118–19, 121, 129 Ellison, Ralph: Invisible Man, 135 Engels, Friedrich, 152–53 Evans, Walker, and James Agee. See Agee, James, and Walker Evans Extension Service. See USDA Extension Service Fadiman, Clifton, 12, 117n17 The Farmer’s Wife, 99, 116n2, 117n8 Farrell, James T., 13–14 fascism, 50 Faulkner, Mara, 71 Faulkner, William, x, 9, 82 Fearing, Kenneth, 23, 26, 172–94; The Big Clock, 182–86, 190; Clark Gifford’s Body, 175–76, 179–80; Dagger of the Mind, 186–88; The Hospital, 176, 190; The Loneliest Girl in the World, 177–81; “Radio Blues,” 176–78; “U.S. Writers in War,” 191 Fearon, Peter, 8 feminist film criticism, 1 Ferber, Edna, 97 film noir, 1 Foley, Barbara, xii, 38, 49, 53, 55, 57n3, 59n22; on the proletarian bildungsroman, 13, 35, 37, 39, 42 Foster, Hal, 50 Frankenberg, Ruth, 120 Frankfurt School, 174 futurism, 18, 24, 27, 50 Gastonia strikes, 36 Glasgow, Ellen, 97 Gold, Mike, 16, 36, 118–19, 132, 142–43, 150n76; Jews Without Money, 119–31 Gross, Leonard, 154–56 Grosz, Elizabeth, 33; on Descartes and Spinoza, 23–24 Guillory, John, 148 Guttmann, Allen, 172 Haley, Alex, 130n3 Halper, Albert, 136–37; The Foundry, 144–47; Union Square, 142–45 Hapke, Laura, 16, 37, 40, 44, 60n26 Harcourt, Alfred, 117n5 Helicon Hall, 101, 109 Hemingway, Ernest, 22, 82 Herbst, Josephine: Money for Love, 17–22; New Green World, 85, 94; Nothing Is Sacred, 93–94; Rope of Gold, 83–95 Herrmann, John, 86 Hicks, Granville, 109, 132 high modernism. See modernism Hitler, Adolf, 129 Hoffmann, Nancy, 109–110 Howells, William Dean, 5 Huyssen, Andreas, 44–45 Indians. See Native Americans Industrial Workers of the World, 164 Jameson, Fredric, 72 Johnson, Josephine, 97; Circle of Seasons, 110; The Inland Island, 110; Now in November, 109–16 Joyce, James: Ulysses, 134 Judaism, 118–31 Jurca, Catherine, 15n8 Kelley, Edith Summers, 97; Weeds, 100–09 Kelley, Robin, 131n5 Klein, Marcus, 143 Kocks, Dorothee, 112 Kolodny, Annette, 60n22, 96–97 Kracauer, Siegfried, 192n5 Lange, Dorothea: Migrant Mother, x Langer, Elinor...

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