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Demographic angst : cultural narratives and American films of the 1950s /
Prolific literature, both popular and scholarly, depicts America in the period of the High Cold War as being obsessed with normality, implicitly figuring the postwar period as a return to the way of life that had been put on hold, first by the Great Depression and then by Pearl Harbor. Demographic A...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The character of post-World War II America
- Singin' in the (HUAC) rain: job security, stardom, and the abjection of Lena Lamont
- It's all about Eve
- "What starts like a scary tale ... ": the right to work On the waterfront
- "Life could not better be": disorganized labor, the little man and the court jester
- Citizens of the free world unite: international tourism and postwar identity in Roman holiday, Teahouse of the August moon, and Sayonara
- Expedient exaggeration and the scale of Cold War farce in North by northwest
- Defiant desegregation with no (liberal) way out
- "'I want to be in America': urban integration, Pan American friendship, and West Side story."