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Rescuing Interpretation with Mark Danielewski: The Genre of Scholarship in House of Leaves
- Steven Belletto
- Art
- 1 September 2009
The Korean War, the Cold War, and the American novel
- Steven Belletto
- Art, Political Science
- 1 March 2015
From a Cold War literary and cultural studies perspective, the Korean War (1950–1953) is a distinctive moment in US cultural history. This essay proposes that there are two broad phases of Korean War…
The Beat Generation Meets the Hungry Generation: U.S.—Calcutta Networks and the 1960s “Revolt of the Personal”
- Steven Belletto
- ArtHumanities
- 2 January 2019
This essay explores the relationship between the U.S.-based Beat literary movement and the Hungry Generation literary movement centered in and around Calcutta, India, in the early 1960s. It discusses…
American Literature in Transition, 1950–1960
- Steven Belletto
- Education
- 30 November 2017
The Game Theory Narrative and the Myth of the National Security State
- Steven Belletto
- Art
- 1 June 2009
This essay explores what the author terms the “game theory narrative,” a cultural narrative that gained prominence in American culture in the early years of the Cold War. For many Americans in the…
No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives
- Steven Belletto
- Art
- 28 December 2011
Chapter One: Chance, Narrative, and the Logic of the Cold War Chapter Two: Aesthetic Responses to Political Fictions: Pynchon and the Violence of Narrative Chance Chapter Three: The Zemblan Who Came…
Cabaret and Antifascist Aesthetics
- Steven Belletto
- Art
- 2009
When Bob Fosse's Cabaret debuted in 1972, critics and casual viewers alike noted that it was far from a conventional film musical. "After 'Cabaret,'" wrote Pauline Kael in the New Yorker, "it should…
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