From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors : : Constructing American Boyhood in Postwar Hollywood Films /

From Dead Ends to Cold Warriors : : Constructing American Boyhood in Postwar Hollywood Films / / Peter W.Y. Lee.

After World War II, studies examining youth culture on the silver screen start with James Dean. But the angst that Dean symbolized—anxieties over parents, the “Establishment,” and the expectations of future citizen-soldiers—long predated Rebels without a Cause. Historians have largely overlooked how...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
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Lee, Peter W.Y.,
MitwirkendeR:
Jarman Jr, Claude,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.) :; 35 b-w images, 4 color images, 2 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Abbreviations
  • Chronology
  • Introduction: Are the Kids All Right?
  • 1 The Family in Trouble, 1920–1945
  • 2 Gable Is Able: Re-creating the Postwar Family
  • 3 Curbing Delinquency: Hot Rodding and Hot Rods
  • 4 Whitewashing the Race Cycle in 1949
  • 5 The International Picture
  • Conclusion Revising the “Deanlinquent"
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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