Transforming the Screen, 1950-1959University of California Press, 2003 - 382 páginas 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 "teenage" generation with rock and roll films, and movies as diverse as Rebel Without a Cause and Gidget. |
Conteúdo
The American Film Industry in the Early 1950s | 7 |
Genres and Production Trends 19501954 | 33 |
HUAC the Blacklist and the Decline of Social Cinema | 65 |
Censorship and SelfRegulation | 87 |
Technology and Spectacle | 107 |
The Roots of Diversification | 127 |
Hollywood International | 147 |
Science Fiction Films and Cold War Anxiety | 169 |
The Film Industry in the Late 1950s | 197 |
Genres and Production Trends 19551959 | 217 |
American Documentary in the 1950s | 257 |
Experimental Cinema in the 1950s | 279 |
Notes | 315 |
Selected Bibliography | 341 |
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Outras edições - Ver todos
History of the American Cinema, Volume 7 Charles Musser,Eileen Bowser,Donald Crafton,Thomas Schatz Prévia não disponível - 1994 |
History of the American cinema. 7. Transforming the screen : 1950 - 1959 ... Peter Lev Prévia não disponível - 1994 |
History of the American Cinema, Volume 7 Charles Musser,Eileen Bowser,Donald Crafton,Thomas Schatz Prévia não disponível - 1994 |
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