![]() | Second Lives: Black-Market Melodramas and the Reinvention of Television Michael Szalay is professor of English and film and media at the University of California--Irvine. He is the author of New Deal Modernism: American Literature and the Invention of the Welfare State and Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party. |
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