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American culture
Art, music, literature, people, sports, technology, business, politics, religion and more in the United States. American culture is primarily Western, but is influenced by African, Asian, and Latin American and Native American cultures.
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screenwriters
Culture; American culture
Ambivalent category of Hollywood creators, whose role took shape with the feature film (especially sound). Over the years, Hollywood has hired top writers from William Faulkner to Ben Hecht to John ...
nuclear age
Culture; American culture
America formally ushered in the “nuclear age” on August 6, 1945 when it dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, to end the Second World War. Nuclear weaponry had been the American military’s ...
communes
Culture; American culture
America has incorporated a long history of people choosing to embrace alternative communal societies, from the initial vision of Pilgrims through later groups, including the Shakers, the Oneida ...
lawyers, television shows
Culture; American culture
America in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries is known as an increasingly litigious society in which trials and verdicts are covered in news and gossip and via books by the ...
neo-Dada
Culture; American culture
America witnessed a return of Dadaist practice in the work of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. A liminal moment in the history of postwar American art, neo-Dada was at once a response to the ...
television crime
Culture; American culture
America’s fascination with crime permeates mass media. Indeed, critics frequently charge that media violence incites crime rather than reflecting it (evidence is murky). Still, as movie plots, fodder ...
drama and theater
Culture; American culture
America’s greatest contribution to world theater to date is indisputably the twentiethcentury musical. The American musical entertains audiences from London to Tokyo. Americans who never patronize ...
