Triumph over Containment : : American Film in the 1950s / / Robert P. Kolker.
The long 1950s, which extend back to the early postwar period and forward into the early 1960s, were a period of “containment culture” in America, as the media worked to reinforce traditional family values and suspected communist sympathizers were blacklisted from the entertainment industry. Yet som...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 On Containment, Screen Size, and the Lightness and the Dark
- 2 “It Was Like Going Down to the Bottom of the World”: John Garfield and Enterprise
- 3 “I’m a Stranger Here Myself”: Nicholas Ray and Ida Lupino
- 4 “Love, Hate, Action, Vio lence, and Death . . . in One Word: Emotion”: Joseph Losey and Samuel Fuller
- 5 “Put an Amen to It”: The Old Masters— Welles, Hitchcock, Ford
- 6 Looking to the Skies: Science Fiction in the 1950s
- 7 “How Can You Say You Love Me . . . ?”: Melodrama
- Conclusion: “Complete Total Final Annihilating Artistic Control”— Stanley Kubrick Explodes Containment
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author