American Cinema of the 1950s | Taschenbuch

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.

Murray Pomerance is an independent scholar living in Toronto, Canada, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Hitchcock Quartet (An Eye for Hitchcock, A Dream of Hitchcock, A Voyage with Hitchcock,and A Silence from Hitchcock);
Edge of the Screen (Bloomsbury, 2024);Uncanny Cinema: Agonies of the Viewing Experience(Bloomsbury, 2022); Color It True: Impressions of Cinema(Bloomsbury, 2022); The Film Cheat: Film Artifice and Viewing Pleasure(Bloomsbury, 2020); Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor's Magic(Bloomsbury, 2019); Cinema, If You Please: The Memory of Taste, the Taste of Memory(Bloomsbury, 2018),and many other volumes including, with Matthew Solomon, The Biggest Thing in Show Business: Living It Up with Martin & Lewis(2024).Pomerance's fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, New Directions, The Kenyon Review,and elsewhere; he is the author of Grammatical Dreams, A King of Infinite Space, and other books.

Also available in hardback, 9781845204365 £45.00 (December, 2005)

Timeline: 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
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Erscheinungsjahr:	2005
Genre:	Importe , Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Theater & Film
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781845204372
ISBN-10:	1845204379
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Pomerance, Murray
Redaktion:	Pomerance, Murray
Hersteller:	Berg Publishers
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Murray Pomerance
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.12.2005
Gewicht:	0,462 kg