Cold War Film Genres

Book Overview

From the mid-1940s to the late 1980s American film studios enjoyed commercial success in a range of often overlooked genres, employing a new realism to depict social class structures, capitalist desires and the expansion of the marketplace, and to turn American cultural values comically and subversively against themselves. With case studies of the Cold War comedy, the 'rogue cop' film, the brainwashing thriller and the urban romances that defined...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474455115
• ISBN13: 9781474455114
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"