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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Peter W.Y. LeePublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781978813472ISBN 10: 1978813473 Pages: 258 Publication Date: 12 February 2021 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents List of Figures List of Tables Foreword Chronology List of Abbreviations Introduction: Are the Kids All Right? 1 The Family in Trouble, 1920-1945 2 Gable is Able: Re-Creating the Postwar Family 3 Curbing Delinquency: Hot Rods and Hotrodding 4 Whitewashing the Race Cycle in 1949 5 The International Picture Conclusion: Revising the “Deanlinquent” Acknowledgments Bibliography IndexReviewsA specter was haunting mid-twentieth century Hollywood - the specter of the rebellious boy. Peter W.Y. Lee ably shows how US filmmakers of the period created a cast of culturally potent boy characters to arbitrate conflicts of age, gender, race, class, and political ideology at the dawning of the American Century. From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors is required reading for historians of youth, film, and the early Cold War. --Mischa Honeck author of Our Frontier Is the World, The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy A specter was haunting mid-twentieth century Hollywood - the specter of the rebellious boy. Peter W.Y. Lee ably shows how US filmmakers of the period created a cast of culturally potent boy characters to arbitrate conflicts of age, gender, race, class, and political ideology at the dawning of the American Century. From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors is required reading for historians of youth, film, and the early Cold War. ""A specter was haunting mid-twentieth century Hollywood – the specter of the rebellious boy. Peter W.Y. Lee ably shows how US filmmakers of the period created a cast of culturally potent boy characters to arbitrate conflicts of age, gender, race, class, and political ideology at the dawning of the American Century. From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors is required reading for historians of youth, film, and the early Cold War.""— Mischa Honeck, author of Our Frontier Is the World, The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy Author InformationPETER W.Y. LEE is an independent historian specializing in American history and youth culture. He has published widely on comic books, film, and television. His most recent edited volume is Peanuts and American Culture: Essays on Charles M. Schulz’s Iconic Comic Strip. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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