Cultural Production and Consumption in 50s America
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Köp båda 2 för 1235 krDr. Nathan Abrams is a professor of Film Studies at Bangor University, UK. He is the founding co-editor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal. He is the author and editor of a number of books and articles, including most recently The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema (2012). He is currently editing a collection entitled Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film, Television, and Popular Culture (forthcoming). Julie Hughes teaches at Matthew Boulton College, Birmingham.
Acknowledgements Introduction, Nathan Abrams (Birkbeck, University of London) and Julie Hughes (Matthew Boulton College, Birmingham) 1. Othering conformity in post-war America: intellectuals, the new middle classes nd the problem of cultural distinctions, Mark Jancovich (University of East Anglia) 2. 'Don't fight it. You can't whip Mickey Mouse': Disneyland's America 1955-59, Emma Lambert (University of Birmingham) 3. Beauty shops and bouffants: the political uses of beauty, style and domestic space, Julie A. Willett (Texas Tech University) 4. Zoot suit: breaking the Cold War's dress code, Candida Taylor (Univeristy of Birmingham) 5. Mother's Old-Fashioned Gefilte Fish, Nathan Abrams (Birkbeck, University of London) 6. 'Not on his wavelength': experiments with radio by John Cage, Ben Andrews 7. 'Only one way to fight a toxin': the poison and progress of radioactivity in The Incredible Shrinking Man, Kyle Smith 8. Muscular manhood and salacious sleaze: the singular world of the 1950s macho pulps, Bill Osgerby (London Metropolitan University) 9. Containing Batman: rereading Frederic Wertham and the comics of the 1950s, Will Brooker (Richmond, the American International University in London) 10. Romance and history: Anya Seton's The Winthrop Woman, Julie Hughes (Matthew Boulton College, Birmingham) Afterword - Considering cultures: how to make sense of our Cold War, Scott Lucas (University of Birmingham)