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The Dream Beside Me: The Movies and the Children of the Forties
by Williams, Carol T
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0838622909
- ISBN 13
- 9780838622902
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Rutherford, New Jersey, USA: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1980. CC6 - A hard cover first edition withdrawn ex-library book in good+ condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in black cloth covered boards with silver lettering and graphics on the spine with minor overall shelf wear with some light tape staining on the outside board surfaces and the front and back free endpapers from where the dust jacket was taped to the boards plus there are the usual library stamps and pocket on the top outside paper edges, the front free endpaper, and the title page plus there is some very light yellowing on the outside paper edges. The dust jacket shows minor overall shelf wear with a library label on the spine plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A book about work in the history of sexuality as related to the history of American film. The author recreates the psychological atmosphere in which the children of the 1940s, especially girls, viewed and were affected by popular films ranging from "Gone with the Wind," and "Casablanca," to "Cover Girl." Bibliography, indexed, 304p.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 5.75"x8.5". Ex-Library.
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- Seller
- Bookmarc's
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- Seller's Inventory #
- SCW09861
- Title
- The Dream Beside Me: The Movies and the Children of the Forties
- Author
- Williams, Carol T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0838622909
- ISBN 13
- 9780838622902
- Publisher
- Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
- Place of Publication
- Rutherford, New Jersey, USA
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Nonfiction Non-fiction Movie Movies Motion Picture Motion Pictures Film Films Popoular Culture History Performing Arts History Sexuality Popular Psychology Women s Studies Gender Studies Girl Girls Gone with the Wind Casablanca Cover Girl Taylor Elizabeth
- Bookseller catalogs
- Entertainment; Medicine & Health; Entertainment / Film Criticism; Entertainment / Film History; Movements & Organizations / Cultural History; Medicine & Health / Human Sexuality;
- Size
- 5.75"x8.5"
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