American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations (Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema) by Pomerance, Murray [Editor]; Pomerance, Murray [Introduction]; Pomerance, Murray [Contributor]; Grant, Barry Keith [Contributor]; Knight, Professor Arthur [Contributor]; Haralovich, Mary Beth [Contributor]; Higashi, Sumiko [Contributor]; Bell-Metereau, Reb

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New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x0x9. Faint edge wear. 2005 Trade Paperback. From cold war hysteria and rampant anticommunist witch hunts to the lure of suburbia, television, and the new consumerism, the 1950s was a decade of sensational commercial possibility coupled with dark nuclear fears and conformist politics. Amid this amalgamation of social, political, and cultural conditions, Hollywood was under siege: from the Justice Department, which pressed for big film companies to divest themselves of their theater holdings; from the middleclass, whose retreat to family entertainment inside the home drastically decreased the filmgoing audience; and from the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was attempting to purge the country of dissenting political views. In this difficult context, however, some of the most talented filmmakers of all time, including John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Vincente Minnelli, Nicholas Ray, and Billy Wilder produced some of… Read More

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