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The Fifties: Transforming the Screen, 1950-1959

By Peter Lev

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0520249666, 9780520249660
Open Library ID
OL22485195M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
4 MB (4319969 bytes)
Series
History of the American Cinema
Edition
1
Pages
396\353
Topic
History
Time added
2014-10-05 02:30:00

Description

Completing the landmark, award-winning, ten-volume series on the first century of American film, The Fifties covers a particularly tumultuous period. Peter Lev explores the divorce of movie studios from their theater chains; the panic of the blacklist era; the explosive emergence of science fiction as the dominant genre ( The Thing, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, War of the Worlds ); the rise of television and Hollywood's response to the new medium, as seen in widescreen spectacles ( The Robe, The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur) and mature Westerns (High Noon, Shane, The Searchers ). The richly detailed text elucidates a number of emerging trends as Hollywood, with its familiar stars and genres, reached out as an industry to the newly acknowledged ''teenage'' generation with rock and roll films, and movies as diverse as Rebel Without a Cause and Gidget.

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