American classics
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American classics are works of literature, film, music, or other cultural production considered foundational to American identity and artistic achievement.
The category typically includes novels like *The Great Gatsby* and *To Kill a Mockingbird*, films like *Casablanca*, and music from jazz standards to Motown hits.
What qualifies as a classic shifts with changing tastes and cultural politics—canons expand and contract.
The phrase also applies to iconic American cars from roughly the 1950s through 1970s: He restores American classics in his garage.
- The Great GatsbyTwenties novel about obsession
- Citizen KaneNewspaper tycoon's rise and fall
- Declaration of IndependenceAmerica's founding proclamation
- Moby-DickEpic whaling novel
- BluesCertain sports franchise nickname
Ragtime · Leaves of Grass · Gospel · Emancipation Proclamation · To Kill a Mockingbird · West Side Story · Rock and Roll · Casablanca · Little Women · Lewis and Clark Expedition · Fourth of July · The Godfather · Star Wars · Forrest Gump · baseball game · blue jeans · muscle car · Revolutionary War
- theaterplays, stage, play, onstage, acting
- Literature Studiesliterary analysis, literary theory, close reading, literary canon, literary movements
- literary translationliterary translation, literary translations, translated works, translated novels, translated poetry
American classicspulp fiction
Sensational cheap literature
dime novels · penny dreadfuls · airport novels · potboilers · bodice rippers
American classicsRussian classics
Canonical literature from Moscow's tradition
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