American Cinema of the 1950s by Murray Pomerance
America in the 1950s was a place of sensational commercial possibility coupled with dark nuclear fears and conformist politics. Cold war hysteria and anti-communist witch hunts influenced a culture already falling under the spell of suburbia, television and a brave new world of luxury goods.Throughout the decade Hollywood was under siege: from the Justice Department pressing for big film companies to divest themselves of their theatre holdings; from the middle classes, whose retreat to family entertainment inside the home drastically decreased the film-going audience; and from the House Un-American Activities Committee, attempting to purge the country of dissenting political views. This tumultuous decade also saw some of Hollywoods most talented filmmakers - John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock, Vincente Minnelli, Nicholas Ray and Billy Wilder - producing some of the best-loved movies in the history of cinema, including From Here to Eternity, Sunset Boulevard., Singin' in the Rain, Shane, Rear Window, and Rebel Without a Cause.
Murray Pomerance is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University, which he chairs. He is editor of the Horizons of Cinema series at SUNY Press and co-editor, with Lester D. Friedman, of the Screen Decades series in which this volume appears.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781845204372 |
| ISBN 10 | 1845204379 |
| Title | American Cinema of the 1950s |
| Author | Murray Pomerance |
| Series | Screen Decades |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2005-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
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