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The Fifties:

Transforming the Screen 1950-1959
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University of California Press, 2006 - Performing Arts - 382 pages
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.
  

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Selected pages

Contents

The American Film Industry in the Early 1950s
7
Genres and Production Trends 19501954
33
HUAC the Blacklist and the Decline of Social Cinema
65
Censorship and SelfRegulation
89
Technology and Spectacle
107
The Roots of Diversification
127
Hollywood International
147
Science Fiction Films and Cold War Anxiety
169
The Film Industry in the Late 1950s
197
Genres and Production Trends 19551959
217
American Documentary in the 1950s
257
Experimental Cinema in the 1950s
279
Notes
315
Selected Bibliography
341
Index of Films
377
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About the author (2006)

Peter Lev is Professor of Electronic Media and Film at Towson University and author of American Films of the 70s: Conflicting Visions.

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TitleThe Fifties: Transforming the Screen 1950-1959
Volume 7 of History of the American cinema
AuthorPeter Lev
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherUniversity of California Press, 2006
ISBN0520249666, 9780520249660
Length382 pages
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