American Cinema of the 1950s

Themes and Variations

AvMurray Pomerance,Murray Pomerance

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2005-12-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt:462 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Screen Decades
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781845204372

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Murray Pomerance is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson 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.

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Timeline: The 1950s Murray Pomerance (Ryerson University, USA) 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, USA) 1956: Movies and the Crack of Doom Murray Pomerance (Ryerson University, USA) 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