The Fifties: Transforming the Screen, 1950–1959 (Volume 7)

The Fifties: Transforming the Screen, 1950–1959 (Volume 7) (History of the American Cinema)

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 response to the new medium, as seen in widescreen spectacles (The Robe, The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur) and mature Westerns (High Noon, Shane, The Searchers). The richly detailed text elucidates a number of emerging trends as Hollywood, with its familiar stars and genres, reached out as an industry to the newly acknowledged Â“teenageâ€ generation with rock and roll films, and movies as diverse as Rebel Without a Cause and Gidget.
Country USA
Brand University of California Press
Manufacturer University of California Press
Binding Paperback
Height 10
Length 7
Weight 1.79897205792
Width 0.8
ReleaseDate 2006-11-06
NumberOfItems 1

Country	USA
Brand	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
Binding	Paperback
Height	10
Length	7
Weight	1.79897205792
Width	0.8
ReleaseDate	2006-11-06
NumberOfItems	1

The Fifties: Transforming the Screen, 1950–1959 (Volume 7) (History of the American Cinema)