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The Fifties: Transforming the Screen, 1950-1959

by Peter Lev
The Fifties: Transforming the Screen, 1950-1959

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ISBN13: 9780520249660
ISBN10: 0520249666



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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 and#147;teenageand#8221; generation with rock and roll films, and movies as diverse as Rebel Without a Cause and Gidget.

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Peter Lev is Professor of Electronic Media and Film at Towson University and author of American Films of the 70s: Conflicting Visions.

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ISBN:
9780520249660
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
11/01/2006
Publisher:
University of California Press
Series info:
History of the American Cinema (Paperback)
Language:
English
Pages:
382
Height:
.85IN
Width:
7.06IN
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1 in.
Series:
History of the American Cinema
Series Number:
7
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2006
Series Volume:
07
UPC Code:
2800520249662
Author:
Peter Lev
Subject:
Film and Television-History and Criticism

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