The Fifties: Transforming the Screen, 1950-1959 Volume 7

by Peter Lev

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520249666
• ISBN13: 9780520249660
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.1" x 10.0"