Demographic Angst : Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nadel, Alan, 1947- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Social aspects.
Cold War (1945-1989) in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Cinema > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Guerre froide au cinema.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Cold War in motion pictures.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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."

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