Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewAmerica 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor Murray Pomerance (Independent scholar, Canada)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Berg Publishers Volume: v. 1 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.426kg ISBN: 9781845204372ISBN 10: 1845204379 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 01 December 2005 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsTimeline: The 1950s, Murray Pomerance (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada) 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 IndexReviewsAuthor InformationMurray Pomerance is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Toronto Metropolitan University, which he chairs. He is editor of the Horizons of Cinema series at SUNY Press and co-editor, with Lester D. Friedman, of the Screen Decades series in which this volume appears. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
