American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations

by Murray Pomerance

Book Overview

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;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813536731
• ISBN13: 9780813536736
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"