Bloomsbury Home
This product is usually dispatched within 2-4 weeks
- Delivery and returns info
-
Flat rate of $10.00 for shipping anywhere in Australia
Description
America in the 1950s was a place of sensational commercial possibility coupled with dark nuclear fears and conformist politics. Cold war hysteria and anti-communist witch hunts influenced a culture already falling under the spell of suburbia, television and a brave new world of luxury goods.Throughout the decade Hollywood was under siege: from the Justice Department pressing for big film companies to divest themselves of their theatre holdings; from the middle classes, whose retreat to family entertainment inside the home drastically decreased the film-going audience; and from the House Un-American Activities Committee, attempting to purge the country of dissenting political views. This tumultuous decade also saw some of Hollywoods most talented filmmakers - John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Vincente Minnelli, Nicholas Ray and Billy Wilder - producing some of the best-loved movies in the history of cinema, including From Here to Eternity, Sunset Boulevard., Singin' in the Rain, Shane, Rear Window, and Rebel Without a Cause.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Movies and the 1950s, Mary Beth Haralovich (University of Arizona, USA)
1950: Movies and Landscapes, Kristen Hatch (University of California, USA)
1951: Movies and the New Faces of Masculinity, Sumiko Higashi (State University of New York, USA)
1952: Movies and the Paradox of Female Stardom, Rebecca Bell-Metereau (Texas State University, USA)
1953: Movies and Our Secret Lives, Michael DeAngelis (DePaul University's School for New Learning)
1954: Movies and the Walls of Privacy, Jon Lewis (Oregon State University, USA)
1955: Movies and Growing Up . . . Absurd, Barry Keith Grant (Brock University, Canada)
1956: Movies and the Crack of Doom, Murray Pomerance (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)
1957: Movies and the Search for Proportion, Adrienne L. McLean (University of Texas, USA)
1958: Movies and Allegories of Ambivalence, Arthur Knight (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA)
1959: Movies and the Racial Divide Select Academy Awards, 1950-1959
Works Cited and Consulted
Contributors
Index
Product details
| Published | 01 Dec 2005 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 272 |
| ISBN | 9781845204372 |
| Imprint | Berg Publishers |
| Illustrations | 33 b&w illustrations, bibliography, index |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | Screen Decades |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Related Titles
