America In The 1950s

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Outlines the important social, political, economic, cultural, and technological events that happened in the United States from 1950 to 1959.

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Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Author : Edmund Lindop
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Release : 2009-09-01
File : 148 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780822576426


American Culture In The 1950s

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This book provides a stimulating account of the dominant cultural forms of 1950s America: fiction and poetry; theatre and performance; film and television; music and radio; and the visual arts. Through detailed commentary and focused case studies of influential texts and events - from Invisible Man to West Side Story, from Disneyland to the Seattle World's Fair, from Rear Window to The Americans - the book examines the way in which modernism and the cold war offer two frames of reference for understanding the trajectory of postwar culture. The two core aims of this volume are to chart the changing complexion of American culture in the years following World War II and to provide readers with a critical investigation of 'the 1950s'. The book provides an intellectual context for approaching 1950s American culture and considers the historical impact of the decade on recent social and cultural developments.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Martin Halliwell
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Release : 2007-03-13
File : 336 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780748628902


Hollywood And The Movies Of The Fifties

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A fascinating look at Hollywood’s most turbulent decade and the demise of the studio system—set against the boom of the post–World War II years, the Cold War, and the atomic age—and the movies that reflected the seismic shifts Hollywood in the 1950s was a period when the film industry both set conventions and broke norms and traditions—from Cinerama, CinemaScope, and VistaVision to the epic film and lavish musical. It was a decade that saw the rise of the anti-hero; the smoldering, the hidden, and the unspoken; teenagers gone wild in the streets; the sacred and the profane; the revolution of the Method; the socially conscious; the implosion of the studios; the end of the production code; and the invasion of the ultimate body snatcher: the “small screen” television. Here is Eisenhower’s America—seemingly complacent, conformity-ridden revealed in Vincente Minnelli’s Father of the Bride, Walt Disney’s Cinderella, and Brigadoon, among others. And here is its darkening, resonant landscape, beset by conflict, discontent, and anxiety (The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Asphalt Jungle, A Place in the Sun, Touch of Evil, It Came From Outer Space) . . . an America on the verge of cultural, political and sexual revolt, busting up and breaking out (East of Eden, From Here to Eternity, On the Waterfront, Sweet Smell of Success, The Wild One, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Jailhouse Rock). An important, riveting look at our nation at its peak as a world power and at the political, cultural, sexual upheavals it endured, reflected and explored in the quintessential American art form.

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Genre : Performing Arts
Author : Foster Hirsch
Publisher : Knopf
Release : 2023-10-10
File : 702 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780307958938


Anti Communism And Popular Culture In Mid Century America

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Not long after the Allied victories in Europe and Japan, America's attention turned from world war to cold war. The perceived threat of communism had a definite and significant impact on all levels of American popular culture, from government propaganda films like Red Nightmare in Time magazine to Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. This work examines representations of anti-communist sentiment in American popular culture from the early fifties through the mid-sixties. The discussion covers television programs, films, novels, journalism, maps, memoirs, and other works that presented anti-communist ideology to millions of Americans and influenced their thinking about these controversial issues. It also points out the different strands of anti-communist rhetoric, such as liberal and countersubversive ones, that dominated popular culture in different media, and tells a much more complicated story about producers' and consumers' ideas about communism through close study of the cultural artifacts of the Cold War. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Cyndy Hendershot
Publisher : McFarland
Release : 2015-10-03
File : 184 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780786483693


Fifties Homestyle

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In nonstop color photos, Burns takes readers on a voyeuristic journey through a bygone world, illustrating the precious pieces that antique dealers and flea-marketers hotly compete for today. A must for lovers of Americana and nostalgia. 100 four-color photos.

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Genre : Antiques & Collectibles
Author : Mark Burns
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Release : 1988
File : 100 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015013187672


Back To The Fifties

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Through close attention to films like Back to the Future and popular music of artists like Michael Jackson, Back to the Fifties explores how Fifties nostalgia was shaped for a generation of teenagers trained by popular culture to rewind, record, recycle and replay.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Michael D. Dwyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Release : 2015
File : 241 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780199356843


Writings On American History

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Genre : America
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Release : 1928
File : 334 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433081687752


Guitar An American Life

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Reunion is the awkward, tender meeting between a father and daughter after nearly twenty years separation. Dark Pony is the telling of a mythical story by a father to his young daughter as they drive home in the evening.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Tim Brookes
Publisher : Grove Press
Release : 1979
File : 374 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0802142583


The Oxford Companion To United States History

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Here is a volume that is as big and as varied as the nation it portrays. With over 1,400 entries written by some 900 historians and other scholars, it illuminates not only America's political, diplomatic, and military history, but also social, cultural, and intellectual trends; science, technology, and medicine; the arts; and religion. Here are the familiar political heroes, from George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, to Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. But here, too, are scientists, writers, radicals, sports figures, and religious leaders, with incisive portraits of such varied individuals as Thomas Edison and Eli Whitney, Babe Ruth and Muhammed Ali, Black Elk and Crazy Horse, Margaret Fuller, Emma Goldman, and Marian Anderson, even Al Capone and Jesse James. The Companion illuminates events that have shaped the nation (the Great Awakening, Bunker Hill, Wounded Knee, the Vietnam War); major Supreme Court decisions (Marbury v. Madison, Roe v. Wade); landmark legislation (the Fugitive Slave Law, the Pure Food and Drug Act); social movements (Suffrage, Civil Rights); influential books (The Jungle, Uncle Tom's Cabin); ideologies (conservatism, liberalism, Social Darwinism); even natural disasters and iconic sites (the Chicago Fire, the Johnstown Flood, Niagara Falls, the Lincoln Memorial). Here too is the nation's social and cultural history, from Films, Football, and the 4-H Club, to Immigration, Courtship and Dating, Marriage and Divorce, and Death and Dying. Extensive multi-part entries cover such key topics as the Civil War, Indian History and Culture, Slavery, and the Federal Government. A new volume for a new century, The Oxford Companion to United States History covers everything from Jamestown and the Puritans to the Human Genome Project and the Internet--from Columbus to Clinton. Written in clear, graceful prose for researchers, browsers, and general readers alike, this is the volume that addresses the totality of the American experience, its triumphs and heroes as well as its tragedies and darker moments.

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Genre : History
Author : Paul S. Boyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release : 2001-07-04
File : 985 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780199771103


A Diplomatic History Of The American People

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Genre : History
Author : Thomas Andrew Bailey
Publisher : New York : Appleton-Century-Crofts
Release : 1969
File : 928 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCAL:B3648487