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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Peter StanfieldPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.384kg ISBN: 9780813572987ISBN 10: 0813572983 Pages: 236 Publication Date: 08 April 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback 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 ContentsReviews""Fresh ideas, fresh arguments, and a good feel for the 1950s—Stanfield has it all. This book is one of a kind."" -- Wheeler Winston Dixon * University of Nebraska-Lincoln * ""This dazzling archaeology of cycles and genres in postwar cinema goes deep into cultural history, then pulls back to reveal patterns and movements unseen until Stanfield saw them. Highly recommended."" -- Will Straw * McGill University * ""The Cool and the Crazy is a breath of fresh air in that it takes a new look at film cycles that have been written about on multiple occasions—1950s B motion pictures—studying them from topical, social, and production-level perspectives ... This is indeed the 'jazzy, accessible' read it claims to be. Highly recommended."" * CHOICE * ""One of the strengths of Stanfield's work is his willingness to resist easy and superficially satisfying answers in favour of demonstrating the imprecise and often awkward ways in which cinema relates to public debates and social trends."" * Journal of American Studies * ""Uptight yet simmering below the surface, the fifties were a great decade for style and culture. Peter Stanfield’s The Cool and the Crazy explores the pulpy cinema of the era with aplomb."" * Campus Circle * ""Fresh ideas, fresh arguments, and a good feel for the 1950s—Stanfield has it all. This book is one of a kind."" -- Wheeler Winston Dixon * University of Nebraska-Lincoln * ""This dazzling archaeology of cycles and genres in postwar cinema goes deep into cultural history, then pulls back to reveal patterns and movements unseen until Stanfield saw them. Highly recommended."" -- Will Straw * McGill University * ""The Cool and the Crazy is a breath of fresh air in that it takes a new look at film cycles that have been written about on multiple occasions—1950s B motion pictures—studying them from topical, social, and production-level perspectives ... This is indeed the 'jazzy, accessible' read it claims to be. Highly recommended."" * CHOICE * ""One of the strengths of Stanfield's work is his willingness to resist easy and superficially satisfying answers in favour of demonstrating the imprecise and often awkward ways in which cinema relates to public debates and social trends."" * Journal of American Studies * ""Uptight yet simmering below the surface, the fifties were a great decade for style and culture. Peter Stanfield’s The Cool and the Crazy explores the pulpy cinema of the era with aplomb."" * Campus Circle * Fresh ideas, fresh arguments, and a good feel for the 1950s--Stanfield has it all. This book is one of a kind. --Wheeler Winston Dixon University of Nebraska-Lincoln (07/28/2014) This dazzling archaeology of cycles and genres in postwar cinema goes deep into cultural history, then pulls back to reveal patterns and movements unseen until Stanfield saw them. Highly recommended. --Will Straw McGill University (11/10/2014) Fresh ideas, fresh arguments, and a good feel for the 1950s - Stanfield has it all. This book is one of a kind . Wheeler Winston Dixon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Author InformationPETER STANFIELD is a professor in the film department at the University of Kent, UK. His previous books include Maximum Movies—Pulp Fiction: Film Culture and the Worlds of Mickey Spillane, Samuel Fuller, and Jim Thompson, ""Un-American"" Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era (both Rutgers University Press), and Horse Opera: The Strange History of the Singing Cowboy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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