Cold War Film Genres /

Cold War Film Genres / / Homer B. Pettey.

Examines how Cold War films depicted pertinent issues of American social class and genderProvides studies of emerging film genres and cycles in the Cold War periodExamines how new genres recast gender and class conditions in terms of defining urban and suburban AmericaReveals new directions and succ...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Pettey, Homer B.,
MitwirkendeR:
Bronfen, Elisabeth,
Cohan, Steven,
Jenkins, Jennifer Lei,
McGee, Kristin,
Miklitsch, Robert,
Norden, Martin F.,
Palmer, R. Barton,
Pettey, Homer B.,
Robertson Wojcik, Pamela,
Seed, David,
Sikov, Ed,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2018
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Traditions in American Cinema : TAC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 22 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • 1. Introduction: Cold War Genres and the Rock-and-Roll Film
  • 2. Social Factors in Brainwashing Films of the 1950s and 1960s
  • 3. The Berlin Crisis? Piffl!: Billy Wilder’s Cold War Comedy, One, Two, Three
  • 4. The Small Adult Film: A Prestige Form of Cold War Cinema
  • 5. “I’m Lucky – I Had Rich Parents”: Disability and Class in the Postwar Biopic Genre
  • 6. Rogue Nation, 1954: History, Class Consciousness, and the “Rogue Cop” Film
  • 7. Internal Enmity: Hollywood’s Fragile Home Stories in the 1950s and 1960s
  • 8. Suburban Sublime
  • 9. Domestic Containment for Whom? Gendered and Racial Variations on Cold War Modernity in the Apartment Plot
  • 10. Success and the Single Girl: Urban Romances of Working Women
  • 11. Paris Loves Lovers and Americans Loved Paris: Gender, Class, and Modernity in the Postwar Hollywood Musical
  • 12. Straight to Baby: Scoring Female Jazz Agency and New Masculinity in Henry Mancini’s Peter Gunn
  • Index

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