Fractured Fifties: The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade

by Christine Sprengler

The 1950s as a cultural concept has surged with astonishing force over the last half century. Cultural and political investment in the postwar era has been heavily determined by the desires, anxieties, ideologies, and technologies of the contexts in which they surface. In this book author Christine Sprengler explores how contextualizing factors shaped the 1950s in different ways, and how cinematic representations spearheaded, challenged, or intervened...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190067357
• ISBN13: 9780190067359
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"