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Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Preface: Mapping the Underground Culture | p. xi |
Introduction: Within the Shell of the Old: The Creation of the Cold War Consensus and the Emergence of the Underground Culture | p. 1 |
The Killer inside Me: Roman Noir Authors | p. 17 |
Slipping Deeper into Hell: Jim Thompson's Theology of Absurdity | p. 19 |
"It's Always for Nothing": The Paperback Worldview of Charles Willeford | p. 39 |
Progress and Its Discontents: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors | p. 53 |
"I'm Being Ironic": Imperialism, Mass Culture, and the Fantastic World of Ray Bradbury | p. 55 |
The Devil and Charles Beaumont | p. 73 |
Outside Looking In: Minority Artists | p. 89 |
"So Much Nonsense Must Make Sense": The Black Vision of Chester Himes | p. 91 |
"Some Torture That Perversely Eased": Patricia Highsmith and the Everyday Schizophrenia of American Life | p. 114 |
Little Shop of Horrors: Independent Filmmakers | p. 131 |
"Lots of Socko": The Independent Cinematic Vision of Samuel Fuller | p. 133 |
Roger Corman's Low-Budget Modernism | p. 151 |
Cracks in the Consensus: Liberal Artists | p. 173 |
Richard Condon and the Paranoid Surreal Style in American Politics | p. 175 |
Another Dimension: Rod Serling, Consensus Liberalism, and The Twilight Zone | p. 194 |
Conclusion: The Emancipation of Dissonance | p. 215 |
Notes | p. 223 |
Bibliography | p. 261 |
Index | p. 275 |
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