The Fifties - Transforming the Screen, 1950–1959 (Paperback)

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."

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	History of the American Cinema, 7
Release date:	November 2006
First published:	November 2006
Authors:	Peter Lev
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	396
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-24966-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Cinema industry Promotions
LSN:	0-520-24966-6
Barcode:	9780520249660

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