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It Came From the 1950s! Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties

By Darryl Jones , Elizabeth McCarthy , and Bernice M. Murphy (Editors)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2011
ISBN
0230272215, 9780230272217
LCC
E169.12 .I8 2011
Google Books ID
wvj5tgAACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL24857463M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1327230 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
277\277
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

It Came From the 1950s is an eclectic, witty and insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns, anxieties and desires of their times. The essays explore the emergence of "Hammer Horror" and the company's groundbreaking 1958 adaptation of Dracula; the work of popular authors such as Shirley Jackson and Robert Bloch, and the effect that 50s food advertisements had upon the poetry of Sylvia Plath; the place of special effects in the decade's science fiction films; and 1950s Anglo-American relations as refracted through the prism of the 1957 film Night of the Demon.

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