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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface: Mapping the Underground Culture
Introduction: Within the Shell of the Old: The Creation of the Cold War Consensus and the Emergence of the Underground Culture
Part One. The Killer inside Me: Roman Noir Authors
1. Slipping Deeper into Hell: Jim Thompson’s Theology of Absurdity
2. “It’s Always for Nothing”: The Paperback Worldview of Charles Willeford
Part Two. Progress and Its Discontents: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors
3. “I’m Being Ironic”: Imperialism, Mass Culture, and the Fantastic World of Ray Bradbury
4. The Devil and Charles Beaumont
Part Three. Outside Looking In: Minority Artists
5. “So Much Nonsense Must Make Sense”: The Black Vision of Chester Himes
6. “Some Torture That Perversely Eased”: Patricia Highsmith and the Everyday Schizophrenia of American Life
Part Four. Little Shop of Horrors: Independent Filmmakers
7. “Lots of Socko”: The Independent Cinematic Vision of Samuel Fuller
8. Roger Corman’s Low-Budget Modernism
Part Five. Cracks in the Consensus: Liberal Artists
9. Richard Condon and the Paranoid Surreal Style in American Politics
10. Another Dimension: Rod Serling, Consensus Liberalism, and The Twilight Zone
Conclusion: The Emancipation of Dissonance
Notes
Bibliography
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