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Fractured fifties : the cinematic periodization and evolution of a decade
Sprengler, ChristineNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]Online Oxford Scholarship Online
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Fractured fifties : the cinematic periodization and evolution of a decade
Sprengler, ChristineNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]"Fractured Fifties: The Cinematic Periodization and Evolution of a Decade presents a two-pronged argument that (1) cinema has helped define the 1950s by contributing in considerable and meaningful ways to the process of periodization and thus a general conception of the decade, and (2) cinema has fractured our sense of the 1950s. It challenges a reductive and fairly cohesive set of tropes with a complex amalgam of representations that also intervene in debates about historiography, historicity, cultural memory, mediation, nostalgia, and periodization. In other words, cinema has fractured our sense of the 1950s, yielding in the process a series of 1950s types or kinds, (e.g., The Leave it to Beaver Fifties, The Jukebox Fifties, and The Cold War Fifties, The Retromediated Fifties, etc.) as well as a wealth of critical insights into myriad pasts, presents, and the evolving relationships between them"--
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The working class in American film : the creation of image and culture by Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s
Marcink, Robert A.Amherst, NY : Cambria Press, c2011.
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