Assess the effect that society had on literature and the arts (and vice versa)
between the years 1950-1980.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 28 Apr 2004 14:37 PDT

This is an immense subject. Could you narrow it down? Describing the
interrelations between society and the arts over a thirty-year period
is something that could fill many volumes. A more manageable question
is more likely to receive an answer.

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Clarification of Question by snoopy99-ga on 28 Apr 2004 14:52 PDT

Arts and Television
a. Won Elections and changed politics
Women's Discovery
a. "Leave it to Beaver" and "Ozzie and Harriett" reflected real middle-class
   life (duel role as house wifte and worker.
Sexual Discovery
a. Elvis Presley -rock and roll and Marylin Monroe (Playboy and sex appeal
b. Kinsey published "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male"
1960's Revellion
a. experienceing sex, drugs. and defience
b. War Protests and rebellion and defience
c. Ginsberg and Kerouac voice their opinions
Post War 
a. "Catch-22" "Slaughterhouse Five"  
b. New mobility and affluence of American Life
c. McCarthyism (Arthur Miller-"The Crucible"
d. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
d. African Americans -"Raisin in the Sun"